Verizon Won The First Empowered By Telecommunications Award (VZ)

10/21/2009 - Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is the winner of NEC's first Empowered by Telecommunications Award for its technical achievement. The award was given to Verizon as recognition for its leadership role in optical control plane technology, which allows electronic devices within optical networks to easily communicate with each other. The award was presented at the USTelecom member reception on October 20 in Chicago as part of Supercomm 2009. Senior vice president of technology Mark Wegleitner said, "This award underscores Verizon's commitment to optical control plane technology and the innovation and functionality it helps us deliver to our customers. Control plane technology is the basis for a number of network initiatives such as just-in-time circuit provisioning, bandwidth-on-demand services and our global mesh architecture."

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