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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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Covad Increases Bandwidth Offerings upto DS3

August 4, 2009 Covad News

Covad Communications Company has completed the next phase of its broader network transformation strategy by building out its access portfolio with the introduction of DS3 service for performance-intensive applications and enterprise connectivity, as well as higher-bandwidth bonded T1 offerings up to 12.0 Mbps. Covad has also introduced network-wide Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to enable [...]

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Russian Synterra and Verizon Business

July 8, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Synterra, a national telecommunications service provider of the Russian Federation, and U.S.-based Verizon Business  have signed a master services agreement that will provide significant benefits to customers of both companies. The signing occurred in Moscow on Wednesday (July 8th) during the week of the U.S.-Russian Presidential Summit. The joint agreement will allow Synterra customers in [...]

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NoChokePoints – self interest or do they have a point?

June 23, 2009 NoChokePoints

On June 22, 2009 a group of mostly regional telecom carriers formed a new coalition called NoChokePoints. They are on a mission to get the FCC to reform the fee structure for special access to the large bandwidth pipes mostly owned by incumbent carriers as AT&T and Verizon. According to NoChokePoints, companies like AT&T and [...]

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Verizon named Premier provider of IP Telephony

June 11, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Business has been awarded s the 2009 North American Enterprise Telephony Equipment Implementation and Management Customer Value Enhancement Award by the Frost & Sullivan, a leading industry consulting firm. The Frost & Sullivan award recognizes Verizon Business’ demonstrated ability to expand its customer base through the creation of innovative managed IP telephony services that [...]

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Verizon Business Cloud-Based Computing as a Service

June 4, 2009 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Business today introduced the industry’s most comprehensive on-demand, “cloud-based” Computing as a Service (CaaS) solution designed to meet the stringent security and performance requirements of enterprise customers. This new offering helps businesses take advantage of cloud (IP-based) computing to more efficiently and securely manage IT computing resources – server, network and storage – to [...]

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Next Generation Telecoms Summit – The Converged Services Summit

May 13, 2009 Carriers

While services are converging in Telecoms, so are the executives that lead the top enterprises. Miriam Holzman, VP of Content Production and Distribution for Fox Mobile Entertainment as well as cross Telco sector giants Bradford Duea, President of Napster, and Tom Saine, CIO of USA Mobility, have all confirmed attendance at the Next Generation Telecoms [...]

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Alcatel Lucent Q1 2009 results

May 5, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel Lucent KEY NUMBERS Q1 2009 Revenues of Euro 3.598 billion, down 6.9% year-over-year Adjusted2 gross profit of Euro 1.133 billion or 31.5% of revenues Adjusted2 operating income1 of Euro (254) million or (7.1)% of revenues Operating cash flow3 of Euro (43) million Net debt of Euro (841) million as of March 31, 2009 Full-year [...]

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