Verizon Business Brings New IP Capabilities and VIPER

Verizon Business offers new IP capabilities to allow for easy and cost-effective adoption of unified communications and collaboration.

The new capabilities feature:

• IP Audio Conferencing, for instant meetings without additional per minute charges, from Verizon-enabled locations.
• VoIP IP Enterprise Routing (VIPER), a new cloud-based VoIP feature that eliminates domestic or international per minute calling charges for calls made between Verizon VoIP customers who have signed up for the VIPER feature.
• Centralized multi-site designs for Verizon Hosted IP Centrex customers in Europe.

Verizon IP Audio Conferencing allows customers to make use of their IP networks for conference calls and provides another access option for boosted efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

"Verizon has always done a good job in supporting its multi-national businesses," says David Yedwab, UCStrategies UC Expert. "Today's extensions to their VoIP solutions extend that by making it both easier and less expensive for global enterprises to use Verizon's growing UC&C solution sets - what could be better?"

VIPER is available to Verizon Business VoIP customers in the US and Europe, and will enable customers to benefit from cost savings for business-to-business IP calling. As it's already enabled in the Verizon network, it requires no new additional hardware or software. Any VIPER customer can take advantage of the capability and automatically enroll organizations in a user community.

European customers with IP Centrex can benefit from centralizing a hub and extending VoIP capabilities to multiple office locations. The centralized multi-site, multi-country platform eliminates the need for in-country voice trunks and TDM/IP gateways, while also being capable of supporting emergency calls from remote locations. It also comes with a new rate plan that allows calls between countries with Verizon VoIP to be billed at the domestic rate.