>>8 xcore1.Washington.cw.<<
This is Cable & Wireless's Washington, D.C. router center. Cable & Wireless is a major world-wide backbone provider.
>>9 visual-link.Washington.cw.net<<
This appears to be visuallink's core router (the router, located in C&W's facility, that visuallink's line is plugged into)
>>10 ns.visuallink.com <<
This is visuallink.
So yes - this web host appears to be one hop off of the C&W backbone. They apparently buy their connectivity from C&W.