In constant evaluation of a evergrowing market, an interesting article about Level 3 and there network.

If you wonder why I put these posts up, well its because this forum represents part of a emerging industry. Though as much as many of you refer to my posts as bad and or not too your liking, knowledge is power, and here are some interesting perspectives on a market that we are all in. I find them quite interesting, and since if by reading it, it helps someone out, then thats really good to hear. Many of us are busy, and dont have a chance to read every IS magazine that comes to your door. I have a few that I read, and this was interesting.

Here is the link to it:


http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2704021,00.html

Let me know your thoughts....

Joe

[Edited by JBIZ718 on 04-08-2001 at 05:08 PM]

Well I found the article very interesting. I hear level3 offers good colocation rack space and bandwidth at very affordable prices compared to other places. I dont know how true this is, if anyone had any comment on level3 post emm up =) as I am looking for a place to get a rack and colocate some servers.

Im glad you found the article interesting.

Joe

Before we shed the DSL portion of our business we had our main connection out of a Level 3 Data Center near us. It looked something like this:




[end user]--->[central office]--Network Prover's Backbone
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[Routers in Level 3 Data Center]
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[Internet]


They were great very rarely had downtime, and had excellent monitoring services.

The biggest problem we had was that no one was on their backbone :D, so traceroutes always had to go through one or two backbones to get where they needed to go. I also think some of their peering arrangements were not as good as they could have been. We were colocated in Washington DC, but when we needed to reach the UUNET backbone we had to go up to New York, and to get on the Sprint Backbone we had to go to Chicago.

Also, there is a misstatement in the article:


Since Level 3 doesn't sell its services directly to businesses, its main focus this year is on signing up carriers as customers.


Of course they sell their services directly to businesses, and they have some good rates.