Verizon's recent announcement of an expansion of its carrier Ethernet service offerings into Canada and Latin America, coupled with expanded service offerings in Europe demonstrates the growing importance of Ethernet as a WAN service. Forty-five percent of IT executives interviewed for the Nemertes benchmark Building The Successful Virtual Workplace said that their organization was using Ethernet (mostly in the metro area), with another 5 percent either evaluating or planning to deploy in the next two years, with many expressing a desire to deploy more aggressively as service coverage improve.