READING, England, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Verizon Mobility Solutions Seamlessly Integrated With Verizon Private
IP to Optimize Workers' Productivity, Regardless of Location

BEST (Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology) has chosen solutions from
Verizon Business to optimize the productivity of the company's mobile workers
-- whether they are on the road, in the office or at home. Verizon Mobility
Solutions offer secure, reliable and efficient access to business-critical
applications, while Verizon Private IP links the company's global office
sites.

BEST specializes in engineering, manufacturing, selling and installing
sorting machinery for the food and nonfood industries. The company is active
in more than 40 countries in Europe, America and Asia, and has a worldwide
network of local agents delivering service to its global customer base.

Many BEST employees work on the road, and therefore BEST decided to
streamline its communications infrastructure to enable secure collaboration
and the availability of software applications both in and outside the office.
BEST's overall objective is to provide the best possible customer service by
empowering employees, wherever they are in the world, with simple, secure and
easily available access to core business information.

Verizon Enterprise Mobility service -- which provides simple and secure
connectivity to the corporate network for mobile workers at airports, train
stations, hotels and event venues -- seamlessly integrates with Verizon
Private IP. This enables BEST's employees to maximize their time, regardless
of location.

Paul Berghmans, co-founder and CIO of BEST, explains: "As a global
company, our business success is reliant on our employees' ability to
communicate in real time with their colleagues in multiple geographies while
on the road. With Verizon Enterprise Mobility, our remote and mobile workers
have multiple options to securely connect to the corporate network, using
secure, high-speed Internet connections and a user-friendly client installed
on their mobile device. Ultimately, this enables us to focus on our customers
wherever we are in the world - and in today's business environment, that
customer focus is absolutely key to business success."

The BEST global network is built on MPLS-based Verizon Private IP, which
provides secure, dedicated connectivity between the company's offices in
Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, with Hong Kong access planned
for the near future. BEST mobile users are routed to the corporate network
via Verizon Secure Gateway, using Verizon Enterprise Mobility. This includes
globally available Internet access, with more than 85,000 hot spots among the
options available to users, and advanced end-user client software, which BEST
can administer centrally to ensure that all communications to the corporate
network comply with BEST's security policies.

Nicholas De Walsche, sales director for Verizon Business Belgium and
Luxembourg, said: "An increasingly mobile workforce is now the norm for
global companies such as BEST, and hence, secure access to key applications
hosted on the corporate network is now a key CIO priority. Verizon Business
solutions can transform secure, safe and efficient teleworking from pipe
dream to reality for global businesses, seamlessly enabling work to take
place in any environment, whether at the office, in the home or on the road."

About BEST

BEST with HQ in Heverlee Belgium is the world leader in optical
inspection systems for food, pharmacy, tobacco and recycling industry. With
locations in Belgium, The Netherland, Turkey, USA and Hong Kong, BEST exports
machinery to more than 45 different countries on more than 45 different
applications. BEST is the only visual inspection solutions provider where you
can find all different technologies for inspection under one roof. Please
visit www.bestsorting.com for more information.

About Verizon Business

Verizon Business is a global leader in communications and IT solutions.
We combine professional expertise with the world's most connected IP network
to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network
solutions. We securely connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and
mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees - enabling them to
increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Many
of the world's largest businesses and governments - including 96 percent of
the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational
institutions - rely on our professional and managed services and network
technologies to accelerate their business. Find out more at
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