Verizon Business will continue to upgrade its infrastructure and ...
Verizon Business will continue to upgrade its infrastructure and deploy new long-haul fiber projects this year, the company said. It’s continuing to expand its MPLS network across Asia, Mexico, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, said the company,…
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which logged $17.8 billion in wireless and wireline network projects worldwide in 2008. It will also continue to invest in submarine cable capacity. The second phase of the 10,500 mile Trans-Pacific Express cable network is expected to land in Japan in early 2010. In addition, as a member of the Europe India Gateway (EIG) consortium, a direct high-bandwidth fiber system to be built connecting the U.K., the Middle East and India, Verizon is putting in a cable terminal facility in Marseille, France, for the 9,000 mile, $700 million-plus project, giving EIG direct connectivity to the Verizon Business network in Europe. The terminal should be ready for EIG equipment installation in Q3 2009, with EIG system service ready in 2010. Increasing redundancy and fault-tolerance, the company will expand its global mesh network to India and Egypt, as well as continue expanding optical mesh links in the U.S. and Canada. Other projects on deck in 2009 include a second phase of network expansion in India, deployment of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, deployment of 40 Gbps on selected network routs for IP traffic, and continued testing of 100 Gbps.