Virtela Named Finalist in Prestigious 2010 World Communication Awards

DENVER, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtela, the world's largest independent managed network and security services company, announced today that it has been named a 2010 World Communication award finalist in both the Best Global Operator and Best Managed Service categories.  The World Communication Awards recognize the companies who are driving the leading innovations and breakthrough new services in the communications industry.  

Virtela's intelligent multi-carrier model and suite of managed network and security services has consistently set the standard for technology innovation and operational excellence. Through its partnerships with hundreds of carriers around the world, combined with its own advanced technology platforms, Virtela is able to offer enterprises the highest performing managed services backed by the industry's most advanced service guarantees.

The company's unique open architecture leverages the latest technologies to give customers and partners a competitive edge while delivering the most value out of every information technology dollar they invest. Most recently, the company introduced the industry's first global cloud architecture purpose-built for enterprise networking, security and mobility – the Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) – and the first cloud-based application acceleration service, which deliver order of magnitude improvements in savings and ease of use over traditional approaches.

"Virtela is honored to be recognized for continued innovation, from our disruptive business model to managed services, that offers enterprises the greatest breadth and depth in global service delivery and support," said Vab Goel, Virtela founder and partner at Norwest Venture Partners. "Ultimately, our commitment and passion in customer satisfaction sets Virtela apart and is the reason we are trusted by customers and partners around the world."

Virtela's extensive managed services suite leverages a unique infrastructure that aggregates and integrates the best local, regional and global networks to offer unparalleled geographic reach. By leveraging Virtela's own intelligent overlay platform and algorithms to perform best-path routing and automatic failover for customer network and application traffic, Virtela gives enterprises an inherently higher performing, more resilient and cost effective alternative than traditional carrier networks.

Virtela is the single point of contact for expert design, implementation and 24x7 monitoring and management worldwide. Virtela's global Network and Security Operations Centers are staffed with seasoned engineers who leverage the company's sophisticated predictive analytics platform to proactively monitor customer networks and provide personalized management of Virtela's award-winning services in 190 countries.  These operations centers provide first-call access to expert engineers, maintain a 99% rate for proactively working on issues before customers are aware of them, and achieve service metrics that consistently outperform the company's industry-leading service guarantees. Customers can also leverage the VirtelaView online portal for customized end-to-end visibility and control of their Virtela-managed solutions, including historical, real-time and predictive performance reporting.  

Winners will be announced at the World Communication Awards gala dinner on November 24, 2010 in London.  

About Virtela

Virtela Technology Services Incorporated, the world's largest independent managed network services company, offers award-winning cloud- and device-based services, including MPLS and IP-based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Security, Infrastructure Management, and Application Acceleration, to enterprise customers around the world. Offering services in 190 countries, Virtela integrates and manages best-of-breed service providers through partnerships with 500+ carriers, to address the unique needs of its customers.

Virtela is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with Global Network Operations Centers in Denver, Mumbai, India and Manila, Philippines. For more information, please call +1 (720) 475-4000 or visit www.virtela.net.

SOURCE Virtela