(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Within milliseconds after Typhoon Morakot and earthquakes off the coast of Taiwan damaged 10 submarine cable systems in more than 20 locations in the Asia-Pacific region, the Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) global mesh network automatically rerouted restorable customer traffic from the damaged submarine cables by providing additional network paths.
Despite multiple cable breaks in August, according to Verizon’s Thursday announcement, its global mesh network worked exactly as designed allowing customers to keep their operations running without missing a beat.
“Our large corporate customers who contracted for our restorable services were pleased with the performance of our global mesh network and our Private IP network, which also is designed with complete backup services,” Verizon global network planning vice president Ihab Tarazi said in a statement.
From 2006 to 2008, Verizon Business invested $3 billion in its global network serving enterprise and government customers, and plans to invest at a similar level this year, and the global mesh infrastructure is part of that ongoing investment.
“Our network investment and deployment of our global mesh network during the last three years in this region has paid off tremendously for our enterprise customers,” Tarazi said. “In every location where we had a mesh node, we restored 100 percent of our customers’ restorable traffic — without a human touch.”
Verizon Business began deployment of its Asia-Pacific mesh network immediately after another multiple submarine cable service disruption occurred on December 26, 2006, when eight submarine cables were damaged in 22 locations after a massive earthquake off the coast of Taiwan, which took several weeks to fully restore service.
With more than 38 global mesh nodes, including 21 in the Asia-Pacific region, and true end-to-end connectivity and diversity around the world, Verizon Business is a leader in this advanced network mesh technology. The company deployed the first seven-way route diversity in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions.
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