To meet the growing demand for faster, better performance, Verizon Business is quadrupling the standard speed on its backbone network circuits connecting major U.S. cities.

Verizon Business will help the U.S. Army modernize its communications infrastructure and systems at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to support increased bandwidth and converged communications while improving vital communications for military operations now and in the future.

Verizon Business garnered two key awards at the recent Light Reading Ethernet Expo in New York, further illustrating its industry leadership in the global Ethernet marketplace.

Maxxium, the global premium spirits and wine distribution company, has selected Verizon Business to host a voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) service for Maxxium's international headquarters in the Netherlands.

Verizon Business has further expanded the global availability of its market-leading Ethernet capabilities, enabling even more enterprise customers to benefit from high-speed, secure, easily scalable connectivity. Verizon Business Ethernet access is now available in almost 40 countries worldwide - nearly double the availability since the start of 2007.

Verizon Business today officially opened a new Smart Center in Frankfurt to support customers with complex computing requirements in continental Europe. The facility extends the reach of the comprehensive, high-end managed services and managed-hosting capabilities already available to Verizon Business' global customers.

Verizon Business has been awarded the 2007 European Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year Award for Service Innovation from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Verizon Business won on the strength of the company's comprehensive and robust Ethernet portfolio, European geographic coverage and ongoing industry innovation.

Verizon Business has announced a three-year extension to its existing contract to provide the London Stock Exchange with global communications support. Verizon Business is upgrading the exchange's global wide area network (WAN) communication infrastructure to further enhance high-speed data transmission and message-broadcasting capabilities.

Verizon Business and Fixnetix, a leading European provider of ultra-low latency market data, today announced an agreement that will provide financial institutions with market- and time-sensitive data at ultra high speed.

With almost two decades of experience building one of the most expansive Internet backbones in the world, Verizon Business is using its engineering expertise to deploy the Internet's next-generation protocol, known as IPv6, on the company's public IP network worldwide.

Retail stores and other branch locations now have new options for making dial-up connections a thing of the past as Verizon Business brings headquarters capabilities to the extended enterprise.

To enable customers to manage their telecommunications expenses more easily and efficiently, Verizon Business is streamlining its billing processes, reducing the number of billing systems and enhancing self-service customer billing.