Verizon (News - Alert) Business has been tapped by AMI Semiconductor, a silicon product manufacturer, to consolidate the company’s global wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. The fully managed MPLS-based Private IP
network will be deployed to deliver the reliability needed to support AMI’s worldwide operations.
The four-year contract calls for Verizon Business to serve as AMI’s primary communications services provider by providing a network that will link its 35 sites and 2,800 employees around the world, including the company's headquarters in Idaho, its employment centers in Belgium and the Philippines, and a host of smaller facilities.
“The product of several mergers and acquisitions, AMI Semiconductor had multiple network providers, creating a management burden on our relatively small staff,” said AMI Semiconductor’s director of information technology, EMEA geography, Filip Coppens, in a statement. “Verizon Business effectively bridged the incongruities of a widely dispersed workforce and the centralized nature of our highly automated business processes, enabling access to critical applications supporting manufacturing, distribution, product development, sales and finance.”
The news follows Verizon Communications’ announcement on Friday about it having closed the sale of Verizon Canada Holdings Corp. to a subsidiary of América Móvil. The move resulted on the buyer purchasing Verizon’s interest in Verizon Dominicana.
Verizon had announced in April that it would sell its Caribbean and Latin American telecom operations in three separate transactions. The deals were reportedly valued in a whopping US$3.7 million in cash. Verizon had owned 100 percent of Verizon Dominicana, a 52 percent interest in Puerto Rico Telephone and a 28.5 percent interest in Compañía Anómina Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page.