Virtual Network Services (VNS)
Help build a more intelligent network with secure, on-demand, cloud-based network services.
Orchestration
Supercharge your business agility with the speed and flexibility of virtual networks.
What is Network Orchestration?
Orchestration is used to help automate and simplify your deployment of virtualized networks through self-service tools and centralized management.
How Network Orchestration works
It automates complex, interdependent, cloud-based network functions and helps you service-chain these functions to give your business greater agility.
Simplicity
Help streamline services with automated provisioning and by contracting through a single source.
Centralized policy management
Easily update policies, such as security, across the network and devices.
Pretested service chains
Enable rapid virtual network function onboarding and testing.
Routing
A more simplified way to connect your people, places and things.
What is Virtual Network Services—Routing?
It is part of the application delivery platform within the integrated management portfolio and offers a variety of routing capabilities.
How VNS—Routing works
Virtual Network Services—Routing can be deployed quickly using a predefined catalog of virtual functions that can support multiple network functions.
Flexibility
Choose from a variety of different pretested solutions from vendors you know.
Speed
Help foster business agility through rapid service delivery.
Security
Stay ahead of security threats.
What is Virtual Network Services—Security?
Virtual Network Services—Security delivers virtual firewalls as well as other security services on demand.
How VNS—Security works
It uses plug-and-play virtual network functions, such as firewall, threat prevention and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, deployed from one platform.
Plug-and-play functions
Choose the services you need from the vendors you want.
Flexibility
Help free up resources to focus more on business objectives.
SD WAN
Help take network intelligence and application delivery to the next level.
What is Virtual Network Services—SD WAN?
Virtual Network Services—Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD WAN) and Virtual Network Services—Software Defined Secure Branch (SDSB) combine your public and private networks into a virtualized WAN solution that automates traffic flow and provides bandwidth flexibility aligned with application prioritization.
How Virtual Network Services—SD WAN works
Virtual Network Services- SD WAN and Virtual Network Services - SDSB centralize and automate network control through software using Verizon Hosted Network Services or public cloud.
Simplicity
Centralize configuration, management and reporting.
Flexibility
Help quickly adjust to market demands with rapid deployment and automated end-to-end orchestration.
Performance
Help securely and intelligently route traffic over the network and prioritize critical data.
Session Border Controller as a Service
Enhance and expedite real-time communications.
What is Virtual Network Services—Session Border Controller as a Service?
It is a cloud-based, centralized, managed service that helps enable the rapid deployment of unified communications to connect people, places and things globally.
How Virtual Network Service—SBCaaS works
It performs the security and interoperability functions critical to a successful Voice over IP (VoIP) or simple IP (SIP) deployment without requiring onsite equipment.
Simplicity
Centralize policy and service change management and speed delivery with Enterprise Orchestration.
Reliability
Service chain that has undergone extensive testing to help improve functionality and performance.
More efficient resource utilization
Pay-as-you-grow pricing model and reduced hardware costs.
Customer success stories
Resources
Simplify your network.
Use an agile, resilient and fluid service delivery model to help you capitalize on new opportunities in automation, analytics and customer engagement.
Putting the network back in virtual network services
Virtual approaches to infrastructure and applications are helping lead to greater flexibility and scalability.
Critical success factors for digital network transformation
Network transformation is all about agility, elasticity and resilience. A hybrid application delivery strategy helps achieve optimal performance and flexibility.
Verizon Hosted Network Services: Security Posture
Verizon takes a five-pronged approach to platform and infrastructure security.
¹Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Global Wan Services: Danellie Young, Lisa Pierce, Gaspar Valdivia, Karen Brown; March 24, 2025.
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