Verizon Business Adopts Control Plane, Optical Mesh, ROADM Technologies

“In the backbone we’ve been moving toward a technology called ultra long haul,” he says. “It gives us the ability to regenerate a signal every 2,000 kilometers vs. at every 500 kilometers and literally gets rid of about 70 percent of the equipment in the backbone.” He says it’s been one of the most successful programs at Verizon Business and is about 65 percent complete in the U.S.; additionally, Verizon Business plans to deploy the technology in major rings in Europe in first quarter of 2008 touching–Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London and Paris.

“One of the things that we want to do is grow capacity five or 10 times where we are today, but ultimately with about half the network elements that we do today,” says Briggs. “That is a real key that improves the service, the performance and something that we drive for.” Briggs adds that controlling latency is also a key driver of its optical strategy; by controlling latency, he says, Verizon Business can better support such applications as financial trading and distributed call centers.

Verizon Business has also started upgrading its network to 40gig in the U.S. and has trialed 100gig. And it continues expanding the footprint and density of its IP/MPLS network, with 60 international markets expected to be in operating this year, up from about 55 today.

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