(MyHostNews.com) Leading industry analyst firm Gartner Inc. has positioned Verizon Business in the Leaders quadrant among European network services providers in its new report, “Magic Quadrant for Pan-European Network Service Providers, 2007.”

The latest Gartner Magic Quadrant examines network service providers that “generate at least €100 million [approximately $147 million] in enterprise network services revenue contracted in Europe (not merely revenue for delivery in Europe under contract from non-European sources).”  To qualify, providers had to “offer voice, data, managed network and value-added services to enterprise customers across multiple geographies in Europe.”

According to Gartner, providers positioned in the Leaders quadrant “have a full portfolio of voice and data services, including relatively new offerings in areas such as application-aware networking, WAN optimization and hosted communications applications. These services will be delivered with good quality across a wide area of coverage at competitive prices by account teams that are typically closer to the customer. Leaders have a strong vision of the market and their role in it, and they will typically be able to address a wider range of customers (in terms of size, geography and service requirements) with their service offerings than others in this Magic Quadrant.”

Nancy Gofus, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Business, said: “Our position in the Leaders quadrant reflects our commitment to the European market, including the ongoing expansion of our network-based, global solutions portfolio.  In the past year we expanded our European access capabilities, as well as our managed services and solutions portfolio, including new offerings for security and application management.  We are continuing to expand our capabilities to deliver unsurpassed global solutions to our multinational customers wherever they do business in the world.”

Verizon Business was also recognized by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant for “Global Network Service Providers in 2007.”

+++

Have a newsworthy article or press release that will benefit our readers?
Submit it today.

+++