Level 3 Communications Blog
I work as VP of Content and Media here at Level 3. English expat and passionate new tech energy evangelist.
Why are particular companies targeted for cyber-attacks? It turns out that most are not specifically targeted. Of course, big companies (particularly those in financial services) as well as some government and law enforcement systems are attacked for very particular reasons. But the majority of attacks on smaller companies are much more random. And that is [...]
I’ve been reflecting on the very different experience I had watching TV when I grew up when compared to my own children. We haven’t consumed TV in a “traditional” way for about five years. And for about two years before that we were experimenting with all the new ways of watching TV. That’s a significant [...]
We deliver a LOT of video on behalf of our customers. Some of these customers are the very largest media brands in the world — companies that are rightly extremely protective of their brand and reputation. For many, many years traditional TV engineering teams have maniacally focused on the quality of their technical solutions. Everything [...]
“Not a lot of people know that,” as Michael Caine might say. Not a lot of people know how the television channels they tune in to are put together or how the content gets to their house. A channel is created in a broadcast facility run and operated by a broadcaster (Fox, NBC, BBC, etc.). [...]
If you have a computer connected to a network you should assume you are under attack 24 hours a day. Because you are. The numbers are simply astonishing. I’m sure your head spins when all those network security statistics are thrown around. Unfortunately, despite the awareness the vast majority of security breaches on the Internet [...]
Brands and product owners spend billions and billions of dollars a year trying to generate awareness and sales for their products and services. Those dollars get spent with agencies, intermediaries and owners of eyeball space. The agencies are the ones who create the messaging and creative materials as well as determine what a campaign might [...]
If you are reading this, you are one of the nearly 2 billion people actively using social media. Social media has quickly become the de facto information and sharing source for people around the world – and like so many other large enterprises, Level 3 has taken an active role in the ongoing social conversation, [...]
Last month, Level 3’s Vyvx Solutions were an integral part of the technology that brought live pictures of Felix Baumgartner’s historic skydive to viewers all over the world. In some sense this is what we do all day, every day. The Red Bull Stratos Event is just one of many sporting, news and other events [...]
When we entered the CDN space a few years ago a central part of our “pitch” to the large online media providers was that Level 3 would help build the best distribution platform for them. Best in the sense that the performance and cost matched our customers’ needs. And we did this because we recognized [...]
Inside your skull there are upwards of 30 billion neurons. Each neuron is connected by synapses. And each neuron might have several thousand synapses. Now that’s a big network! For the first half of the 20th century it was believed that once an individual had moved from childhood to adulthood those brain connections were set. [...]
