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There's nothing local about this LAN

Verizon Business this week expanded its Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) across the world, taking a local area network technology and making it global.

The VPLS service is now available across Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and North America. Verizon points out that a global company could use the network for voice, video and data applications across those distant locations.

Verizon was the first major provider to go nationwide with a VPLS service back in 2007. At the same time, the huge federal government contract for Networx required VPLS, which observers saw as a big validation for the emerging technology. 
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