12 Facts About Verizon Business

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Verizon Business is a division of Verizon Communications based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey that provides services and products for Verizon's business and government clients around the world.

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The division was established as Verizon Business following Verizon's acquisition of MCI Communications in January 2006.

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3.

Verizon's Business operates 200 data centers in 22 countries, providing cloud, hosting and Internet colocation services to customers.

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Verizon's Business clients include most of the companies listed in the Fortune 500.

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Verizon's Business provides products and services related to networks, cloud, machine to machine and mobile technologies; data, hosting and storage; and managed security, as well as other wired and wireless offerings.

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Verizon Business operates a global IP network that reaches 150 countries.

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7.

In January 2012, Verizon Business began its Private IP Wireless service, which combines 4G LTE with Verizon Business's MPLS IP VPN.

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Verizon Business owns and operates approximately 50 regional data centers around the world and has network access points in the United States, Europe and Latin America.

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CloudSwitch's software allowed Verizon Business to offer enterprise clients the ability to use their existing applications with cloud services.

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10.

In December 2016 Verizon agreed to sell its US data centers business to Equinix Inc for 3.

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11.

Verizon Business established "Innovation Centers" in both Boston and San Francisco to help clients with M2M development.

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12.

Verizon Business is working with the automotive industry in areas of navigation, emergency services, diagnostics, data collection and aftermarket telematics.

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