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Level 3 Communications is a multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.
It operates a Tier 1 network. The company provides core transport, IP, voice, video and content delivery for most of the medium to large Internet carriers in North America, Latin America, Europe and selected cities in Asia. Level 3 is also the largest CLEC in the United States.
Level 3 Communications operates a large network of the Internet. This includes the continental United States, South America, Western Europe, and select cities in Asia. It uses trans-Atlantic cables, including Yellow/AC-2, on which it owned and operated two of the four fiber pairs after the 2001 Viatel bankruptcy. Level 3 Communications has also purchased 300 Gbit/s of capacity on the Apollo cable system.
It is the current owner of AS1 (following the acquisition of Genuity, that was the BBN Technologies Spin off for their Internet Service Provider assets, including this AS), but it operationally uses AS3356, which as of 2007 consistently has one of the highest ranked connectivity degrees on the Internet. It also operates the former Global Crossing network (AS3549) following the company acquisition in 2011.
The company runs a content delivery network which it acquired from Savvis in 2006. Level 3 Communications delivers Netflix video and Apple Inc music content over the Internet.
Source: Wikipedia
It operates a Tier 1 network. The company provides core transport, IP, voice, video and content delivery for most of the medium to large Internet carriers in North America, Latin America, Europe and selected cities in Asia. Level 3 is also the largest CLEC in the United States.
Level 3 Communications operates a large network of the Internet. This includes the continental United States, South America, Western Europe, and select cities in Asia. It uses trans-Atlantic cables, including Yellow/AC-2, on which it owned and operated two of the four fiber pairs after the 2001 Viatel bankruptcy. Level 3 Communications has also purchased 300 Gbit/s of capacity on the Apollo cable system.
It is the current owner of AS1 (following the acquisition of Genuity, that was the BBN Technologies Spin off for their Internet Service Provider assets, including this AS), but it operationally uses AS3356, which as of 2007 consistently has one of the highest ranked connectivity degrees on the Internet. It also operates the former Global Crossing network (AS3549) following the company acquisition in 2011.
The company runs a content delivery network which it acquired from Savvis in 2006. Level 3 Communications delivers Netflix video and Apple Inc music content over the Internet.
Source: Wikipedia