In another sign of traditional telephony companies targetting digital communications, Verizon Business announced a voice quality and performance assessment service for VoIP and private IP customers, named Network Assessment with Voice.

In addition, to further support the deployment of VoIP, Verizon Business will provide Private IP customers with an industry-leading service level agreement (SLA) that measures audio clarity.

"As customer demand for VoIP deployment increases, we’re enhancing our Private IP services to help improve the quality of voice traffic," said Mike Marcellin, vice president of product marketing with Verizon Business. "We continue to expand Private IP’s presence and capabilities to help ensure that our customers are able to leverage the benefits of the convergence of voice, data and video applications moving across their global corporate networks."