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Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Adds Mobile Broadband Backup

January 5, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers now can get Verizon high-performance Internet access coupled with automatic wireless broadband backup to help ensure they are always available to their customers. The new solution – Verizon Internet Dedicated Access with Mobile Broadband – automatically routes business traffic to the Verizon Wireless 3G EV-DO broadband wireless network in [...]

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Verizon’s $17 Billion Network Investment in 2009 Pays Off

December 30, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Business (NYSE:VZ) continued to go the distance in 2009 with its secure, reliable global network, which is the essential foundation for the company’s award-winning wireline and wireless products and services for consumer, business and wholesale customers. Verizon invested more than $17 billion this year in its leading wireless and wireline networks in the U.S. [...]

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ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for Verizon’s ICSA Labs

December 18, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, is the first independent security-product testing and certification laboratory to earn ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, validating the laboratory’s world-class capabilities. As the primary standard used to evaluate testing and calibration laboratories, ISO/IEC 17025 assesses a laboratory’s management and technical capabilities, including the operational effectiveness of its quality-management system [...]

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Verizon Tracking Santa Clause’s Sleigh, our Christmas presents are safe

December 17, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Where in the world is Santa Claus? That’s a question millions of children ask on Christmas Eve. On the big night, the answer will be only a toll-free call away. Verizon Business again is teaming with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to provide a special free hotline for children and their parents to [...]

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Supplemental Data Breach Report 2009 – 15 Most Common Attacks

December 9, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

The latest in the Data Breach Investigations Report series by Verizon Business security experts provides enterprises with an unprecedented look at the 15 most common security attacks and how they typically unfold. In the “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” Verizon Business security experts tap the company’s detailed investigative [...]

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Top 10 Hot Technology Trends

November 12, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Business Identifies Top Technology Trends That Will Support Business Expansion as Economy Recovers OVERVIEW Companies around the globe are positioning themselves for growth as the economic recovery takes hold. Verizon Business has identified 10 business technology trends that will help companies grow their business in 2010. Kerry Bailey, chief marketing officer, Verizon Business: “As [...]

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Forrester Research Cites Verizon Business as a Global Leader in Managed MPLS Services

November 10, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Forrester Research has named Verizon Business a leader in delivering global managed multiprotocol switching label services in the independent analyst firm’s October 2009 report, “The Forrester WAVE™: Managed Global MPLS Services, Q4 2009.”1 Forrester analyzed the managed global MPLS services market by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of providers against an extensive set of 54 [...]

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Verizon’s CaaS Among Light Reading Magazine’s 2009 Top Picks

October 29, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon’s Computing as a Service (CaaS) has been selected by Light Reading magazine as one of its 2009 Top Picks in the business services category (fixed or wireless). Light Reading editors chose award winners from around the world after weeks of discussion with readers, analysts and industry sources regarding which communications [...]

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Gartner Inc Positions Verizon in Leaders Quadrant for U.S. Telecommunications Service Providers

September 28, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the analyst firm’s newly released report, “Magic Quadrant for U.S. Telecommunications Service Providers.” Gartner examined 12 U.S.-based telecommunications service providers in its report. In recognition of the growing trend by business customers to purchase wireline and wireless voice and data services from a [...]

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