Verizon Business now offers its Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) International service within the Asia Pacific, and between the United States and six countries and territories in that region.
U.S. and Asia Pacific-based multinational companies with locations in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan can use the service.
The Asia Pac version of EVPL International is based on carrier Ethernet aggregation gear from ANDA Networks, said Alla Reznik, group manager of Ethernet marketing at Verizon Business. Verizon Business expects to broaden the service’s capability starting next year so it can support multiservice, said Reznik.
Also on the roadmap for 2007 are further expansion in the Asia Pacific, specifically in Malaysia, New Zealand and the Philippines; further expansion in Europe; the introduction of classes of service for all EVPL services; and rollouts in Canada, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Verizon Business has already been offering EVPL International services within and between the U.S. and 10 European countries. Those services are supported by both the ANDA equipment and by core Ethernet switching gear from Tellabs, Reznik said.
Verizon has been in the Ethernet services market for several years, having launched its U.S. Ethernet private line service for the metro in January of 2001. At the end of 2004 the company went national with that service and brought it to Europe. It followed that up with a U.S. launch of Ethernet virtual private line service, for metro and national applications, in May of 2005. And EVPL became available for transatlantic applications to Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in May of this year.
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