Verizon implements first of significant network upgrades
In 2009 Hetzner will begin to report on Verizon Business’s ongoing network upgrades. Verizon Business’s commitment to Hetzner goes beyond simply their technology; it‘s a dedication to service excellence, a pledge to continually improve their processes and their ability to deliver a unified service management platform.
Verizon Business completed the following upgrades in 2008:
- Peering changes: Replacing the Telkom ATM network, Verizon has changed peering links between both Internet Solutions and Telkom (SAIX) to Ethernet over SDH (EoSDH). This allows for greater link capacity (up to 1Gbps), lower latency, faster link upgrades and minimal overhead.
- International Capacity: Ongoing and significant international capacity improvements include the movement of transit links to the Verizon US (AS701) and the Verizon European (AS702) from multiple STM1 (155Mbps) links, to Multiple 1Gbps links on Ethernet interfaces.
- Network Infrastructure: Verizon has implemented a major core refresh program, including edge, transit and core switching/routing. This allows Verizon to increase the levels of resilience in both the Cape Town and Johannesburg facilities.
- Facilities: The Johannesburg facility has been expanded (with further capacity increases in the works) and improved by increasing the resilience of the backup infrastructure.
As part of this commitment and in addition to the upgrades undertaken in 2008, on 17th January, Verizon deployed additional international bandwidth to the Cape Town node, which is where one of the Hetzner data centers is situated.
This upgrade, which is the first of many planned over the next few months, not only allows all our customers to enjoy improved access speeds to their websites (for their own customers) but also added international redundancy, as the network now has two international termination points from Cape Town – one going to Paris, the other to London.
Hetzner and Verizon Business would like to assure customers that all upgrades will continue to be implemented with minimal to no disruptions and as always, such upgrades are implemented to ensure optimal service delivery in telecommunications solutions.
