VZB's Olive Branch to Branch Offices

Verizon Business says it has the answer to one of corporate America's biggest services headaches: how to deliver a full set of IT, security, and communications services to the branch offices of enterprise users without busting corporate budgets.

Verizon Business (formerly MCI) says 70 percent of all enterprise IT resources are now consumed by branch offices, but it was previously too expensive to deliver the same breadth and depth of services found at company headquarters to outlying, local office staff.

But the service provider says it has solved that problem by adding new services to the Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) ISR routers it has deployed in its network.