Verizon

Verizon Communications, formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, is one of the world’s leading providers of high-growth communications services. Verizon is the largest provider of wireline and wireless communications in the United States, with more than 132 million access line equivalents and over 29 million wireless customers. Additionally, Verizon is the world’s largest provider of print and online directory information.

As a Fortune 10 company with more than 247,000 employees and $67 billion in 2001 revenues, Verizon has a global presence in 45 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. Verizon's rapid growth demanded improvements in their online ordering system, which was initially built on Sun Solaris/Oracle. The system needed greater reliability, faster order transaction speeds, and increased availability.

Sector7 was approached to evaluate the existing infrastructure and develop a solution to meet Verizon’s needs. After a thorough assessment, Sector7 recommended migrating from Sun Solaris to IBM AIX while porting the existing Oracle database. Sector7’s team executed the platform upgrade and database migration with zero service interruption, ensuring that Verizon's customers and resellers could continue to interact without any downtime.

• Migrated the online ordering system from Sun Solaris/Oracle to IBM AIX/Oracle.
• Improved transaction speeds, resulting in faster order processing.
• Achieved 24/7 availability for Verizon’s online systems.
• Increased system uptime and enhanced data availability for customers and resellers.

The successful migration provided Verizon with enhanced system performance, greater reliability, and the ability to serve its extensive customer and reseller base more efficiently.