Level 3 Communications Blog
Ever try to call your preteen on that really expensive mobile phone with the not-cheap monthly plan that you bought so that you can “keep in touch?” They never pick up. Fairly quickly you learn that they will only respond to texts, which works until they decide that they can’t be bothered with that either. [...]
Bigger, faster, stronger…if there’s one constant in sports it’s that with each year, the production and business of sports gets more lucrative, more intense, more exciting, more more more! As Director of our Sports segment here at Level 3, I’ve outlined five things I think we’ll see more of across sports in 2012. 1) More high [...]
Level 3 has just released a white paper titled Perspectives on Cybersecurity. Not only does it provide an overview of basic cybersecurity principles, it presents our view of proposed legislation. Additionally, we discuss the role of service providers and the government in protecting our nation’s most sensitive networks and applications. And we also cover an [...]
You may have noticed the name of our company blog is Beyond Bandwidth. That’s because while we operate a huge IP network providing a ton of bandwidth under the ground, we’re generally MUCH more interested with how folks are using that bandwidth on top of the ground. Sometimes we get a little “too beyond” bandwidth, [...]
On my last post, I listed some downsides encountered during my first week as a full-time UC user. Since then, the list has only grown by one (inadvertently hanging-up on folks by closing the conversation window…. oops!) On the other hand, I have also grown my appreciation for the subtle ways in which UC can [...]
It’s official. I cut the cord, threw away my desk phone and moved to a hosted unified communications client. The only vestige of a telephone in my workspace is a headset plugged into the USB port of my laptop computer and there’s no looking back. Wherever my laptop goes, my phone goes and working from [...]
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Thus begins George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel about a bleak future in which man is wholly subservient to the state, a state which maintains power through constant surveillance, propaganda, and mind control. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, works [...]
Last week, while the Apple fanboys all flocked to San Francisco to have their collective minds blown by the iCloud, the real action in cloud was happening down the 101 in Southern Cal at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I was really surprised with what I saw at E3. While everyone else was buzzing over the [...]
When you think about the internet, you probably think of an intangible world of web pages that has little effect in your day to day life. Outside of your ‘real life’ friends that you share pictures and thoughts with on social networks, you might not realize how the online world affects your offline life. Social [...]
The Netherlands is regarded as something of a vanguard European country when it comes to Internet developments. In recent days we have been reminded of this, as Dutch MPs propose bold amendments to their telecommunications law to secure “net neutrality” for the Dutch people. Holland has grown to become a major center for Internet business [...]
