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Verizon Announces Next-Gen and Global Expansion of Cloud Unified Communications & CollaborationBASKING RIDGE, N.J. and ORLANDO, Fla., March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's virtual workforce requires business solutions that enable seamless and instant collaboration with customers, suppliers, partners and colleagues. To help multinational organizations bridge geographic boundaries and forge more productive relationships, Verizon is expanding its Unified Communications & Collaboration as a Service (UCCaaS) solution and introducing new innovative capabilities, including Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms. Verizon is making this announcement from Enterprise Connect 2015, where the company is demonstrating its leading portfolio of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) solutions. "Many of our clients have transformed their workplaces and expanded into new markets to accelerate growth and optimize performance," said Anthony Recine, chief marketing officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "In today's digital and global economy, it's essential that mobile and remote employees communicate and collaborate virtually with colleagues, clients and partners as if they were in the same room together. We've seen strong adoption of our existing UCCaaS offering particularly from manufacturers, financial and professional services firms, retailers and the public sector which is a trend we anticipate will continue as we expand our offering globally." The new capabilities include:
Initially introduced to U.S.-based customers as one of the industry's first cloud-based commercial UC&C offerings, Verizon UCCaaS, a Cisco Powered solution, built on Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), allows enterprises and government agencies to integrate Unified Communications (UC) capabilities into fixed or mobile environments with predictable per-seat pricing. In addition, Verizon UCCaaS is built with layered security and natively integrates into Verizon's Conferencing, global MPLS network (Verizon Private IP) and Verizon IP Trunking services. "Verizon has been a key strategic partner focused on delivering cloud collaboration solutions to our mutual customers and has shown strong market leadership in North America," said Pat Romzek, vice president, Worldwide Sales Cloud Strategy and Enablement at Cisco. "Today's announcement about their global expansion of UC&C is a great proof point that shows the customer demand for simple, scalable collaboration to increase workplace productivity from any device, via the cloud." Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With industry-specific solutions – provided over the company's secure mobility, cloud, strategic networking and advanced communications platforms – Verizon helps open new opportunities around the world for innovation, investment and business transformation. Visit www.verizonenterprise.com to learn more. The complete list of countries where Verizon UCCaaS is commercially available at launch include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 108 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers worldwide. A Dow 30 company with more than $127 billion in 2014 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 177,300. VERIZON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ONLINE NEWS CENTER: News releases, blog posts, media contacts and other information are available in Verizon Enterprise Solutions' online News Center at http://www.verizonenterprise.com/about/news. News from Verizon Enterprise Solutions is also available through an RSS feed at http://www.verizonenterprise.com/rss-options/.
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