Verizon’s Public Sector unit has earned a $495 million deal from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy switches, routers, firewalls and edge computing capabilities, as well as managed services, to support the DoD’s research and high-performance computing facilities.
At the heart of the deal is what the Verizon and the DoD described in a press release the management of a “next-generation, high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network in support of critical research.” The Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) is a high-speed fiber network that connects 200 different Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) laboratories and High Performance Computing (HPC) locations across the U.S. and other countries, the parties stated.
