Level 3 Communications Blog
It’s time we changed the game when it comes to Cloud-delivered applications and their day-to-day performance. Because it’s not unusual for a data center manager, looking over a collection of trouble tickets, many of which reflect user frustration with applications, to put head in hands and wonder how to respond. The servers are humming; the [...]
3.3 milliseconds per 1,000 kilometers — that’s what Wikipedia reports to be the speed of light in fiber optic cable. In theory, if you wrapped a single fiber cable around the equator (which is 40,075 km long) a bit of information could circle the Earth in 0.132 seconds. What’s very important to notice in the [...]
In times of trouble, what you don’t know can really add to the problem. The full impact of Hurricane Sandy, now known as Superstorm Sandy, has yet to be determined. As I write this, thousands of people are still without power, thousands more are salvaging what is left of their homes and people all over [...]
Two weeks ago, Level 3 CEO James Crowe delivered a presentation focused on six future market trends in the telecom industry at Capacity North America, a conference that unites Canadian, Mexican and U.S. Carriers with the international wholesale community. Level 3 Communications appreciated the opportunity to share ideas with friends and colleagues from across the [...]
Sandy and Winterstorm Athena Update 11/08/2012 – 18:00:00 PM EDT As regional cleanup efforts progress, Level 3’s network and facilities continue to operate normally in the wake of the recent storms along the East Coast of the U.S. Through the course of the storms, Level 3 experienced no major service disruptions, due in part to extensive preparation in advance [...]
Aspiring to be the underdog in an unfair fight. For years, Level 3 has objected to the major incumbent telephone companies’ use of “demand lock-up” arrangements in the market for special access services. Using their dominance to maintain their dominance, these incumbents require their customers to, in order to get the incumbents’ best rates, commit [...]
This year, Level 3 delivered a 15,000-mile, nationwide 100Gb private network for a customer and, recently, we’ve started to see other carriers announce their 100Gb network deployments. So, have we finally reached the cross-over to broad adoption of 100Gb? Maybe not just yet. Why? Because of why carriers are deploying it. There are three main [...]
We applaud the FCC for taking an initial step towards fixing the broken and non-competitive special access market by suspending further price flex petitions and by moving forward with mandatory data requests to gather additional information so that working rules can be established. The incumbent phone companies will cry foul respecting the suspension of granting [...]
For years, Level 3 has objected to the major incumbent telcos use of “demand lock up” arrangements in the market for special access services. The incumbent phone companies use and maintain their dominance in the special access market to demand that their customers commit to buy as much as 90 percent or more of their [...]
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 [...]
