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Level 3 Data Center Networking

Networking for the Broadband Age
Some of the top trends in Enterprise IT today are virtualization, rising compute density and data storage growth. Enterprises are expanding geographically, often through acquisitions while having to comply with increasingly stringent
Level 3 solutions combine partnership and performance across a comprehensive portfolio to give you a reliable one-stop resource for your network communication needs. Our network offers industry-leading availability, coverage, flexibility and security to help you drive growth and efficiency. We can help you deploy the solutions that enable your business today while providing the scale and flexibility to address your business needs in the future.

government regulations. From financial services to healthcare to retail and more, your data centers don't just store your mission-critical data. They provide the foundation from which data and applications are distributed throughout your organization. Level 3 specializes in delivering a robust network that can support network-intensive and bandwidth-hungry applications throughout enterprise. With the Level 3 Data Center Networking solution, we can collaborate with you to design the appropriate high-availability, network-diverse, Ethernet bandwidth, managed optical or business continuity solutions that best fit your needs and your budget.

Business Solutions

Room to Grow: The Level 3 Network was built anticipating explosive growth of Data Center traffic. Control Costs: We can pass network scale and cost efficiencies on to our customers. Leverage Experience: Level 3 offers a comprehensive suite of services to create an end-to-end data center backbone customized for your needs.

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Technical Features / Capabilities

Full bandwidth dedicated to a single customers current application traffic mix High reliability with customized level of protection switching, by you or by your primary carrier High availability backbone, encompassing physical and logical layers of all solution provider networks with broad geographic coverage Low-speed to ultra-high bandwidth options for greater scalability and flexibility Range of technical interfaces: Ethernet, SONET, DWDM and managed metro optical networks (inclusive of SAN protocols: Fibre Channel, Infiband, ESCON and FICON) Range of bandwidth options: 1G through 40G+, 10G EVPL

Why Choose Level 3 for Data Center Networking Solution?

Breadth of Portfolio
Range of bandwidth options Numerous service choices (Ethernet to private dedicated solutions) Broad geographic coverage (metro, intercity and global)

Unique, highly scalable global network with metro density

Transparent design detail for true diversity solutions Low latency route guarantees Extensive on-net global presence at key public exchanges (e.g, Equinix, CENX) and financial market exchanges

Provider-neutral colocation space

Service delivery expertise Willingness to build Fiber construction is our heritage Bandwidth Blocks intervals in < 1 week

Level 3 recently conducted a survey with Harris Interactive which found:

45 percent of companies with two or more data centers are currently connecting them at speeds greater than 10G, 16 percent at greater than 40G Most companies have fewer than five data centers (78 percent) While over 50 percent of companies have geographically distributed data storage replication, 37 percent also have local metro replication requirements
Level 3 survey conducted by Harris Interactive, November 2010. Survey based on 238 respondents with > 2 data centers, including mid market and large enterprises.

ABOUT LEVEL 3
As a leading international provider of fiber-based communications services, we are dedicated to helping our customers keep pace with the demands of an increasingly networked world. We couple a broad service portfolio with one of the worlds most scalable end-to-end networks to deliver a set of solutions built for the 21st century. To find out how Level 3 can be your single-provider solution for all of your business needs, contact us today: 1.877.2LEVEL3 info@level3.com www.level3.com

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