A Network Unlike Some Others
13 December 2002
You and I are not likely to see an invoice from Level 3 for their services. Their current target market consists of the 300 largest users of bandwidth worldwide. This makes them the ”carrier’s carrier.”
Level 3’s network is late generation fiber end-to-end. There are no circuit switches. There is no copper. The network is the first of its type ever constructed. It is continuously upgradeable.
The Smithsonian Institution cited the Level 3 Network as:”The world’s first upgradeable international fiber optic network to be completely optimized for Internet Protocol technology, helping to stimulate the biggest change in communications technology in 100 years.”
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