Government

Network

Networks matter to most people. But to government agencies with “no-fail” missions, a reliable network means everything. And our Network is a key reason why so many government customers turn to Verizon Wireless as their preferred wireless service provider.

Layers of protection

Our wireless network is resilient by design. We maintain over 175 Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) across America and thousands of individual cellular sites. We keep this infrastructure constantly ready through preventive maintenance, real-time monitoring, and pre-deployment of personnel and spare parts in case of emergencies.

Standing behind this infrastructure are Network Operations Centers (or NOCs) staffed 24/7 with regional operations teams and vendors. We also maintain agreements with critical vendors for 24/7 support of their critical components.

When a crisis hits, we can make our network mobile with portable cell sites mounted on special dedicated trailers (or COWs) and trucks (COLTs). Our cell sites also have a back-up power plan: permanent battery and generator systems with a large supply of portable generators – all tested regularly under rigorous load tests.

It’s the extra margin of safety you need when conditions turn rough – where seconds make the difference in lives and property saved.

Better technology today

Our network uses a technology called EV-DO – an amazingly efficient and reliable form of CDMA wireless communications that lets agencies like yours deploy more advanced services with more confidence. It helps us increase our capacity and gives you improved data access quality. With EV-DO, you can share large data files more quickly and efficiently, and take advantage of speed and bandwidth sensitive applications like video telephony, media streaming, and continuous backup.

What do you get with EV-DO?

High Bandwidth – EV-DO is built specifically for packet data, so it can offer much more bandwidth. In fact, a typical EV-DO Rev. A data download averages between 600 to 1,400 Kbps.
More Efficient – EV-DO is very efficient with radio spectrum. That lets us support more of your agency’s users in each of our cell site sectors. You get more efficient use of airlink resources and better network utilization.
Quality of Service – QoS is a way to measure and control the service we give you. It lets us differentiate services based on your need for speed, making it easier to support latency-sensitive applications like media streaming and Push to Talk service, or ensure reliable wireless data sessions.
Faster Round-Trips – EV-DO cuts the time it takes for data to make a round-trip between the mobile device and the network provider – down to as little as 150 milliseconds. That’s fast!
Interoperability – EV-DO has quite a fan club: hundreds of devices from top manufacturers support it. That diverse ecosystem means your agency is more interoperable with other departments and stakeholders. It enables you to make better use of your technology investments.
Security – EV-DO provides terrific inherent security. But we go further. Our layered security includes authentication, encryption and monitoring to minimize fraud. One example: the digitally encoded transmissions crossing our network are protected by 4.4 trillion different code combinations to deter eavesdropping, cloning and other types of fraud.

Many government agencies are already taking advantage of these benefits to field enterprise applications like resource planning and constituent relationship management. Verizon Wireless is working with agencies to realize these benefits faster. Our third-party provider relationships offer specialized hardware and software applications built just for government, so agencies can help their field workers become more mobile while staying just as productive.

Even better tomorrow

Long-Term Evolution (or LTE) is our fourth-generation (or 4G) network technology. It’s expected to provide amazing network performance metrics such as mobile download throughput, big reductions in latency, global interoperability, remarkable spectral efficiency, and a higher network capacity.

We chose LTE over all other options because it offers global scale advantages, a healthy vendor ecosystem, and terrific roaming potential. LTE is the result of input from contributors from all over the technology map. It’s this diversity that’s driving many traditional GSM carriers to choose LTE as their 4G technology standard – and that means even better interoperability for your future Verizon Wireless devices and services.
Your agency will start seeing LTE in its service areas during 2010. To make sure your agency is ready, talk to an Account Manager today about how you can plan for this exciting new technology.

To learn more, contact a Government Account Manager or call (800) 293-3048 for a consultation.

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