Verizon Business Customers Access Next-Generation Convergence Solutions Through Partnership With China Telecom

Verizon Business Customers Access Next-Generation Convergence Solutions Through Partnership With China Telecom

September 29, 2007

Agreement Extends Benefits for Multinational Customers in
China

    BEIJING, Sept. 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Verizon
Business' multinational customers now have seamless
connectivity to China Telecom's Next Convergence Network
(CN2), a next-generation IP platform that covers more than
200 cities and 600 routers within China. Access to CN2
effectively extends the benefits of Verizon Business' own
expansive IP backbone network and portfolio of global IP
and mobile devices, services and solutions across the
fast-growing Chinese market.
 
    Verizon Business has been working with China Telecom on
MPLS VPN since 2004, enabling full interconnectivity between
the Verizon Private IP global network and China Telecom's
national MPLS network.  Hundreds of multinational customers
in China already use more than 600 connections to leverage
the power and global reach of the combined China
Telecom/Verizon Private IP networks.  

    Verizon Business customers were among the first
nondomestic customers to be granted access to the new China
Telecom Next Convergence Network. CN2 has backbone core
nodes located in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Nanjing,
Shanghai, Wuhan and Xian. 

    John Killian, president, Verizon Business, commented:
"China is widely acknowledged as a high-growth
economy, and therefore is a strategic focus area for many
of Verizon Business' global customers. Connectivity to CN2
allows us to seamlessly extend the high quality of features
and services we already offer over the Verizon Business
global IP network directly into the Chinese market. For our
multinational customers based in or expanding into China,
this clearly demonstrates our continued commitment to
supporting their expanding voice and data communications
requirements.

    "We focus on helping our global customers realize
their own business objectives. Our partnership with China
Telecom enables us to deliver on our commitment to
companies doing business in China and the rest of the
world."
    Verizon Business through its predecessor companies has
been operational in China since 1993, and today has offices
in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Working in cooperation
with leading Chinese service providers, the company
delivers a full-service portfolio, from leased-line to
MPLS/VPN services, to Chinese-based operations of its
multinational customers.

    Verizon Business is also the only U.S.-based member of
a consortium that is building the first next-generation
undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S.
mainland and China. The new system, to be named
Trans-Pacific Express (TPE), will use the latest optical
technology to provide greater capacity and higher speeds to
meet the dramatic increase in demand for IP. Initial parties
of the consortium include - in addition to China Telecom and
China Netcom - China Unicom, Korea Telecom and Chunghwa
Telecom (Taiwan). The TPE cable will provide more diversity
from other undersea routes and more efficient connections to
a number of countries in Asia where Verizon Business has
large-business customers. 

    About Verizon Business

    Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications
(NYSE: VZ), is a leading provider of advanced
communications and information technology (IT) solutions to
large business and government customers worldwide. 
Combining unsurpassed global network reach with advanced
communications, security and other professional service
capabilities, Verizon Business delivers innovative and
seamless business solutions to customers around the world. 
For more information, visit http://www.verizonbusiness.com.

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