At VeriSign, we want everyone to reap the benefits of the ongoing revolution in digital commerce and communications. It is towards that goal that we focus our company, our technology, our services, and our people.

VeriSign Inc (NASDAQ: VRSN) operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world’s voice and data networks. Every day, we process as many as 18 billion Internet interactions and support over 100 million phone calls. We also provide the services that help over 3,000 enterprises and 500,000 Web sites to operate securely, reliably, and efficiently. VeriSign is a global enterprise with offices throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, and North America, supported by a widespread international network of data centers and operations centers.

As next-generation networks emerge, VeriSign will be there, deploying the intelligent infrastructure services necessary for everything from RFID supply chains, to inter-enterprise voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the seamless delivery of mobile content. Whether you’re a carrier looking to rapidly deploy new services, a Fortune 500 enterprise needing comprehensive, proactive security services, or an organization looking to evolve its trading-partner network, we can help. We’re VeriSign. Where it all comes together.™

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Companies, governments and public institutions worldwide trust VeriSign to secure their sites and protect their brands.

INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure offers interoperability, security, and scalability.

VeriSign enables and protects a growing number of activities every day, from Web surfing, to multimedia messaging, to RFID-based product tracking, and much more. How does VeriSign enable and protect such diverse processes, year after year, with some of the highest levels of reliability?

Through our intelligent infrastructure. VeriSign operates intelligent infrastructure that enables and protects billions of interactions every day across the world's voice and data networks. VeriSign operates the systems that manage .com and .net, processing up to 18-billion Web and email look-ups every day, and runs the largest independent Signaling System 7 (SS7) network in the world, responsible for basic and advanced telecommunications services.

VeriSign intelligent infrastructure can easily mitigate issues such as interoperability, scalability, and security, so that organizations in today's networked world can rapidly deploy new revenue-generating services for their customers, without having to manage a long list of complexities and challenges.

For a historical background on intelligent infrastructure, download the point-of-view white paper entitled Intelligent Infrastructure for the 21st Century.

PORTALS
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure helps portals to manage operational complexities.

Today, portals are using value-added services to attract customers in new ways, often competing and cooperating with carriers, operators, and media companies to fulfill ever-increasing expectations, and VeriSign's intelligent infrastructure allows portals to meet those expectations. VeriSign offers the content and information services that portals need to deliver richer experiences and broaden their reach.

VeriSign intelligent infrastructure simplifies publishing, protecting, delivering, and evaluating video communications, allowing portals to deliver digital content more quickly and inexpensively and providing users high-bandwidth content without impacting system performance. VeriSign allows portals to give their online auction participants the ability to bid and re-bid via SMS messaging on their cell phones. Using SMS, VeriSign also enables search engine companies to deliver their search results to carriers across the world. VeriSign's real-time publishing services enable portal subscribers to receive timely information updates such as news headlines, RSS feeds, and more.

The VeriSign infrastructure helps provide interoperability across technologies, protocols, and devices—helping portals to manage the complexity of today's digital platforms. And VeriSign offers a range of security services, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates that enable Web portals to protect data during transmission and inspire a high level of security confidence.

CARRIERS
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure helps carriers to launch new, compelling services.

The communications industry has changed; today, consumers are driving the demand for new services that can deliver information and multimedia content at any time, from anywhere, and on virtually any device. VeriSign intelligent infrastructure allows carriers to accelerate the launch of new and compelling services for their customers, services that can meet this growing demand.

VeriSign's intelligent infrastructure provides interoperability across technologies, networks, protocols, and devices, as well as unparalleled security that protects existing and emerging digital transactions. VeriSign operates the key networks that carry much of the world's data and voice traffic, including the world's largest independent Signaling System 7 (SS7) network, critical routing directories, and intelligent database and messaging services.

Carriers can leverage these capabilities to augment their traditional voice offerings with cellular, data, and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services. The VeriSign infrastructure also allows carriers to deliver premium messaging and content services—including ringtones, images, games, video, and messaging—to millions of wireless subscribers across a range of media types and devices, as well as a comprehensive set of prepaid and postpaid billing services.

CONSUMER BRANDS
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure helps consumer brands to expand their channels.

As Internet and wireless technologies converge, consumer brands are beginning to tap into the emerging mobile-marketing arena, introducing increasingly sophisticated, interactive marketing campaigns built exclusively to drive new revenue opportunities. VeriSign intelligent infrastructure facilitates this convergence of voice and data networks, offering consumer brands the broad reach they need to expand their distribution channels and increase revenue streams.

Through its mobile media management services, VeriSign now offers leading mobile-channel messaging and marketing services. The m-Qube application platform powers hundreds of mobile storefronts and marketing campaigns for leading consumer brands around the world. The m-Qube Mobile Gateway provides access to 170 million wireless subscribers throughout North America, and offers a series of Web and WAP-based mobile storefront solutions that allow organizations to quickly promote products and deliver mobile marketing initiatives across a range of media types and devices.

VeriSign offers additional services that can help mitigate security, interoperability, and scalability—issues that organizations inevitably encounter when delivering mobile messaging and content to large numbers of consumers across multiple technologies and devices.

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT COMPANIES
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure helps media companies to reach millions of viewers.

Consumers today are pushing the limits of mobility, demanding seamless access to communications, applications, and content anywhere, anytime, from any device. VeriSign intelligent infrastructure allows media and entertainment companies to quickly promote and deliver rich content to millions of subscribers across the so-called three screens—portable devices, computers, and television sets.

Through our broadband content services, VeriSign offers a secure, scalable, efficient platform that supports the distribution of rich digital media over IP networks, including DVD and HD quality video. VeriSign® Real-Time Publisher Services allow companies to organize massive amounts of constantly updated Web content, and distribute links to this content—in real time—to enterprises, Web-portal developers, application developers, and consumers.

VeriSign offers a wide variety of additional services, including premium billing solutions that allow organizations to quickly connect to carrier networks and start generating revenue; interoperability services that mitigate the complexity of today's digital infrastructure; and advanced security services that protect Web sites and digital interactions with customers.

RETAILERS
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure helps retailers to engage customers almost anywhere. In retail, timing is everything. VeriSign intelligent infrastructure allows retailers to build innovative marketing and communications tools that engage customers any time, anywhere, and on any device.

VeriSign offers premium messaging and content services that retailers can use to deliver text messages and rich content to millions of customers across a range of media types and devices— notifying customers when a product becomes available, providing information about current and upcoming sales, offering incentives to targeted audiences, and more.

VeriSign® Intelligent Supply Chain Services can help retailers integrate radio frequency identification (RFID) technology with the EPCglobal Networkä to achieve advanced supply-chain visibility and intelligence. RFID can also provide highly granular, store-level POS information that improves replenishment, promotions, and new-product introductions. These emerging technologies enhance virtually every aspect of a retailer's operations—providing up-to-the-minute data on manufacturing, product distribution, point-of-sale activity, inventory status, and out-of-stock alerts.

For retailers expanding their online sales presence, VeriSign offers a range of additional services, including advanced security solutions that protect Web sites and digital interactions, as well as interoperability services that mitigate the complexity of today's digital infrastructure.

ENTERPRISES
VeriSign intelligent infrastructure helps enterprises to expand business opportunities.

In a business world that is increasingly defined by digital interactions, it is essential to establish a secure and trusted infrastructure for conducting business. VeriSign intelligent infrastructure protects the networks, applications, and transactions that are at the center of the digital economy, helping enterprises minimize risks and maximize business opportunities.

Enterprises around the world trust VeriSign to secure their digital assets. Every day we monitor over 3000 enterprises in over 60 countries. We provide SSL to 93% of the Fortune 500. And we secure over 450,000 Web sites.

VeriSign also provides the DNS services that keep Web sites and email communications up and running—enabling a reliable and consistent global online experience. VeriSign operates the authoritative DNS service for the .com and .net top-level domains, representing over 90 percent of the world's Web, email, and FTP traffic.

VeriSign's Global Network Operations Center and Security Operations Centers monitor thousands of enterprises around the globe, tracking 1.5 billion security events per day. This extensive visibility into the world's networks allows us to offer proactive protection against attacks and helps us provide targeted tools for conducting vulnerability assessments and threat management.