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23 October 2008
Related: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/verizon-spy/verizon-spy.htm
Verizon Business Opens Government Network Operations and Security Center
September 20, 2006
ASHBURN, Va. -- Verizon Business today opened its new Government Network Operations and Security Center (GNOSC), a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to supporting the unique security and operational requirements of its federal government customers. The center, located in Northern Virginia in 30,000 square feet of space built to government security standards, will support the managed network services Verizon Business provides to nearly every federal government agency from the civilian, intelligence and defense communities.
Early next year, the GSA is expected to award the replacement contract to FTS2001 agreement – dubbed Networx. The multimillion-dollar center, constructed under an accelerated build-out schedule, is the first major network facility the company has opened since Verizon and MCI combined in January 2006. In addition to the network monitoring and security center, the area also includes an emergency command center, briefing center, program-management office and support office space.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/print/22_16/31353-1.html
Washington Technology
09/03/07; Vol. 22 No. 16
Verizon relies on network center as telecom competition begins
By David Hubler
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Inside Verizon Business’
new Global IP Network
Operations Center in Ashburn, Va.
Verizon Business’ new headquarters sits on a large tract of open land in Ashburn, Va., primed and ready for expansion to meet the next generation of government communications. The connecting buildings — which resemble a giant convention center or a major international airport’s departure terminal — house the managed network services that Verizon Business provides to many federal agencies, including the intelligence and defense communities. For that reason, much of the center is off-limits to visitors.
The heart of the Verizon facility is the 30,000-square-foot, highly secure Verizon Government Network Operations and Security Center. Photography is not permitted, and press visits, such as the one arranged for Washington Technology, are limited. Access to the top-secret center is controlled by thumbprint and card biometrics identification and monitored by an array of video surveillance devices and motion detectors. All employees in the complex must have at least a secret clearance. The company can compete for work from the Defense Department and intelligence agencies up to the top-secret level, Starks said.
Verizon Federal, now based in McLean, Va., is to move in December, said Susan Zeleniak, group president at Verizon Federal. “The security challenge grows every day in the government — the requirements, the standards — so that was the other reason for building this center,” Zeleniak said, adding that the Ashburn center manages about 70,000 government devices, including routers, switches and wireless access points. “We provide service to every federal agency,” she said. “We just don’t have every agency having managed security service yet. We’ll see that by the end of the decade. Every large agency is moving in that direction.”
The first design requirement for the center was to ensure that all provided services are secure. “Secondly, how do we manage it — for a customer who may want us to manage that — from a security basis?” Zeleniak asked. “For every one of the 50 services we bid on Networx, that’s how we approached it, and building this center was to support that approach.” She said federal customers also benefit from the center because it offers shared knowledge of network operations, threats and technical concerns, something a single dedicated site cannot provide. “When you put several agencies in the same facility, they’re all learning from each other, and so the quality of management improves on a consistent and steady basis.”
Backup facilities reduce network outages to a minimum, Starks said, with built-in redundancy for critical networks. Some classified DOD networks in Texas [Houston and Irving] and elsewhere are replicated in the Ashburn complex, protected from unauthorized access by the facility’s security measures.
http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/govt/ent_svcs/security/gnosc/
GNSOC web site.
Slide show excerpts below from: http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/govt/gnosc/gnosc.xml
(The first slide shows the entrance to the overall Verizon facility, not the GNSOC.)
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