Verizon Business private network solutions deliver isolated, high-performance connectivity through MPLS, private IP, dedicated circuits and campus network architectures. These services keep sensitive traffic completely off the public internet while providing deterministic performance for mission-critical applications.
Organizations that handle financial transactions, patient health records or classified government data rely on Verizon Business private networks to meet strict regulatory and operational requirements across hundreds of sites nationwide.
Verizon Business operates one of the largest private network backbones in North America, spanning over 500,000 route miles of fiber with more than 4,500 points of presence. The private network portfolio includes MPLS VPN for multi-site enterprises requiring quality-of-service guarantees, Private IP for organizations needing any-to-any mesh connectivity, Ethernet Private Line for point-to-point dedicated bandwidth, and campus network solutions for large facilities like hospitals, universities and manufacturing plants. All private network traffic rides infrastructure that is logically and physically separated from consumer broadband, which eliminates contention and delivers consistent sub-45-millisecond coast-to-coast latency. Circuits are backed by 99.99% availability SLAs with automatic service credits and 4-hour mean time to repair commitments.
Multiprotocol Label Switching remains the gold standard for enterprise wide area networking where performance predictability cannot be compromised.
Verizon Business MPLS uses label-switching to route packets across a private backbone without relying on traditional IP lookup at each hop. The result is faster forwarding, deterministic path selection and the ability to assign traffic classes that prioritize voice, video and transactional data over bulk transfers.
Each customer receives a dedicated virtual routing instance that isolates their traffic from every other organization on the backbone. Class of Service markings travel end-to-end, so a voice packet tagged as high priority in New York still receives high-priority treatment when it reaches a branch in Phoenix. Bandwidth options range from 10 Mbps at smaller locations to 100 Gbps at data center hubs.
The FCC maintains records of licensed carriers authorized to provision these circuits, and Verizon Business holds authorization in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. That regulatory standing ensures service consistency regardless of which region your offices occupy.
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Where MPLS excels at hub-and-spoke topologies, Verizon Business Private IP provides full-mesh connectivity between all enrolled sites. Every location can communicate directly with every other location without routing through a central hub. This architecture reduces latency for distributed applications and eliminates single points of failure.
Private IP supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing with BGP or static routing at the customer edge. Verizon Business engineers work with each client's network team to design address plans, configure route policies and establish failover paths. The service integrates with existing firewalls and security appliances without requiring proprietary hardware at any site.
Enterprises migrating from legacy frame relay or ATM circuits find Private IP delivers substantially higher bandwidth at comparable or lower monthly cost. A 100 Mbps Private IP connection typically replaces a bundle of T1 lines while providing 20 times the throughput and lower per-megabit pricing.
Some applications demand absolute bandwidth guarantees with zero oversubscription. Verizon Business dedicated circuits provide exactly that: a fixed-capacity connection between two points that no other traffic can use. Hospital systems connecting operating rooms to imaging archives, financial trading floors requiring microsecond-stable latency, and government agencies transmitting classified material all rely on dedicated circuits.
Campus network solutions extend private connectivity across large physical footprints. A university with 30 buildings, a medical center spanning multiple city blocks, or a manufacturing campus with separate production and office facilities can unify everything under a single Verizon Business private network fabric. The campus design includes redundant fiber paths between buildings, managed switches and routers at each distribution point, and centralized monitoring from the Verizon Business network operations center.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, network segmentation through private circuits is a recommended practice for reducing lateral movement risk during security incidents. Verizon Business campus networks implement this principle by default.
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Financial institutions face stringent requirements from regulators regarding data isolation, encryption and auditability. Verizon Business MPLS and dedicated circuits meet these requirements by ensuring that trading data, customer records and inter-branch communications never touch shared infrastructure. Each circuit can be configured with AES-256 encryption at the transport layer, and all traffic paths are documented for audit purposes.
Healthcare organizations benefit from private network architectures that support HIPAA-compliant data transmission. Electronic health records moving between a hospital and its affiliated clinics travel exclusively over Verizon Business private infrastructure. The network design includes segmentation that separates clinical traffic from administrative traffic from guest internet access, reducing the attack surface at each facility.
Government agencies at federal, state and local levels use Verizon Business private networks for sensitive but unclassified communications. The infrastructure meets CJIS Security Policy requirements for law enforcement agencies and supports FedRAMP-aligned configurations for civilian federal departments. Contract vehicles including GSA Schedule and EIS (Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions) streamline procurement for government buyers.
Verizon Business assigns dedicated network engineers to enterprise private network accounts. These engineers conduct quarterly traffic analysis reviews, identify congestion trends before they affect performance, and recommend bandwidth adjustments or topology changes. The proactive approach prevents degradation rather than simply reacting to outages.
Quality of Service configuration on Verizon Business MPLS supports up to six traffic classes. Real-time voice receives strict priority queuing. Interactive video gets low-latency forwarding. Business-critical applications receive guaranteed minimum bandwidth. Best-effort traffic fills remaining capacity. This granular classification means a video conference between executives will not degrade because someone in the same building started a large file transfer.
For organizations with seasonal traffic patterns, Verizon Business offers burstable bandwidth options on private network circuits. A retail chain experiencing holiday traffic spikes can burst above committed rates temporarily without provisioning permanent capacity for peak demand. Billing adjusts based on actual 95th-percentile utilization, so customers pay for what they use rather than what they might need during the busiest two weeks of the year.
Many enterprises still operate frame relay, ATM or aging point-to-point T1 circuits. Verizon Business provides structured migration programs that transition legacy WAN connections to modern MPLS or Ethernet-based private networks without service interruption. The migration team installs new circuits in parallel with existing ones, validates routing and performance, then cuts over during a scheduled maintenance window.
Typical migrations complete within 60 to 90 days for organizations with fewer than 100 sites. Larger deployments follow phased rollout schedules that prioritize high-traffic locations first. Throughout the migration, both old and new circuits remain active, so failback is immediate if any issue arises during cutover.
Post-migration, clients routinely report 40% to 60% reductions in per-megabit transport costs alongside significant performance improvements. The combination of higher bandwidth, lower latency and managed quality of service transforms application performance for distributed workforces.
A detailed comparison of private network products available through Verizon Business, organized by architecture type, bandwidth capacity and optimal deployment scenario.
| Network Type | Bandwidth Range | Typical Latency | Topology | Best Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPLS VPN | 10 Mbps – 100 Gbps | < 45 ms coast-to-coast | Hub-and-spoke or partial mesh | Multi-site enterprise with QoS needs |
| Private IP | 10 Mbps – 100 Gbps | < 40 ms coast-to-coast | Full mesh any-to-any | Distributed applications requiring direct paths |
| Ethernet Private Line | 10 Mbps – 100 Gbps | < 5 ms metro | Point-to-point dedicated | Data center interconnect, trading floors |
| Ethernet Virtual Private Line | 10 Mbps – 10 Gbps | < 10 ms metro | Point-to-multipoint | Branch office aggregation |
| Dedicated Circuit | DS3 – 100 Gbps | < 3 ms metro | Point-to-point fixed | Regulated data, zero-oversubscription needs |
| Campus Network | 1 Gbps – 400 Gbps | < 1 ms on-premises | Ring or star within campus | University, hospital, manufacturing campus |
Speak with a Verizon Business network architect to evaluate MPLS, Private IP and dedicated circuit options for your organization. Call (800) 922-0204 or request a consultation online.
Contact Sales Back to HomeVerizon Business provides MPLS VPN, Private IP, Ethernet Private Line, Ethernet Virtual Private Line and dedicated campus network solutions. Each option delivers isolated traffic paths that never traverse the public internet, with bandwidth options ranging from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps. The choice between them depends on your topology requirements, number of sites and application performance needs.
MPLS from Verizon Business uses label-switching technology to route traffic across a private backbone with guaranteed quality of service. Unlike internet connections that share capacity with millions of users, MPLS circuits provide predictable latency, jitter and packet loss metrics backed by SLA commitments. Traffic classes let you prioritize voice and video over bulk data transfers, which standard internet connections cannot guarantee.
Verizon Business MPLS delivers average round-trip latency under 45 milliseconds coast-to-coast within the continental United States. Regional circuits typically achieve sub-10-millisecond latency. Dedicated Ethernet Private Lines offer the lowest latency at under 5 milliseconds for metro connections, and campus networks operate at sub-1-millisecond latency within a single facility.
Verizon Business offers direct cloud on-ramp connections from MPLS and Private IP networks to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. These private interconnects bypass the public internet entirely, reducing latency and improving security for hybrid cloud architectures. Bandwidth ranges from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps per cloud interconnect, and multiple connections provide redundancy.
Verizon Business private network SLAs include 99.99% availability for Ethernet Private Line and MPLS services, guaranteed maximum latency and jitter thresholds, less than 0.1% packet loss, and 4-hour mean time to repair. Service credits apply automatically when performance falls below committed thresholds. Your account team reviews SLA performance quarterly and recommends adjustments when utilization patterns change.
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