Virtela Named Finalist In Prestigious 2010 World Communication Awards
Recognized for Best Global Operator and Best Managed
Service
DENVER, September 8, 2010 - Virtela, the world's
largest independent managed network and security
services company, announced today that it has been named a 2010
World Communication award finalist in both the Best Global Operator
and Best Managed Service categories. The World Communication
Awards recognize the companies who are driving the leading
innovations and breakthrough new services in the communications
industry.
Virtela's intelligent multi-carrier model and suite of managed
network and security services has consistently set the standard for
technology innovation and operational excellence. Through its
partnerships with hundreds of carriers around the world, combined
with its own advanced technology platforms, Virtela is able to
offer enterprises the highest performing managed services backed by
the industry's most advanced service guarantees.
The company's unique open architecture leverages the latest
technologies to give customers and partners a competitive edge
while delivering the most value out of every information technology
dollar they invest. Most recently, the company introduced the
industry's first global cloud architecture purpose-built for
enterprise networking, security and mobility - the Virtela
Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) - and the first
cloud-based application acceleration service, which deliver
order of magnitude improvements in savings and ease of use over
traditional approaches.
"Virtela is honored to be recognized for continued innovation,
from our disruptive business model to managed services, that offers
enterprises the greatest breadth and depth in global service
delivery and support," said Vab Goel, Virtela founder and partner
at Norwest Venture Partners. "Ultimately, our commitment and
passion in customer satisfaction sets Virtela apart and is the
reason we are trusted by customers and partners around the
world."
Virtela's extensive managed services suite leverages a unique
infrastructure that aggregates and integrates the best local,
regional and global networks to offer unparalleled geographic
reach. By leveraging Virtela's own intelligent overlay platform and
algorithms to perform best-path routing and automatic failover for
customer network and application traffic, Virtela gives enterprises
an inherently higher performing, more resilient and cost effective
alternative than traditional carrier networks.
Virtela is the single point of contact for expert design,
implementation and 24x7 monitoring and management worldwide.
Virtela's global Network and Security Operations Centers are
staffed with seasoned engineers who leverage the company's
sophisticated predictive analytics platform to proactively monitor
customer networks and provide personalized management of
Virtela's award-winning services in 190 countries.
These operations centers provide first-call access to expert
engineers, maintain a 99% rate for proactively working on issues
before customers are aware of them, and achieve service metrics
that consistently outperform the company's industry-leading service
guarantees. Customers can also leverage the VirtelaView online
portal for customized end-to-end visibility and control of their
Virtela-managed solutions, including historical, real-time and
predictive performance reporting.
Winners will be announced at the World
Communication Awards gala dinner on November 24, 2010 in
London.
About Virtela
Virtela Technology Services Incorporated, the world's largest
independent managed network
services company, offers award-winning cloud- and device-based
services, including MPLS and IP-based Virtual Private Networks
(VPNs), Security, Infrastructure Management, and Application
Acceleration, to enterprise customers around the world.
Offering services in 190 countries, Virtela integrates and manages
best-of-breed service providers through partnerships with 500+
carriers, to address the unique needs of its customers.
Virtela is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with Global
Network Operations Centers in Denver, Mumbai, India and Manila,
Philippines. For more information, please call +1 (720) 475-4000 or
visit www.virtela.net.
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Media Contacts:
Jane Morrissey
Virtela
+1-720-475-4012
jmorrissey@virtela.net
Catharine Morgan
Greenough Communications
+1.617.275.6552
cmorgan@greenoughcom.com