Level 3 Lands SeLoger.com Online Real Estate Sites
French Company Selects Level 3 for High-Speed IP Services
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Level
3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:LVLT) today announced it will now
provide high-speed IP (HSIP) services for leading Paris-based
online
real estate service SeLoger.com Group, including all four of the
company?s websites.
?With their extensive international
footprint and high level of network scalability, Level 3 was the
ideal
provider to support our current bandwidth demands as well as our
plans
for expansion into new markets.?
Since 1992, SeLoger (seloger.com) has connected French real estate
agents and sellers with prospective buyers. Today, the company
operates
France's most extensive website for classified real estate ads and
has
diversified its business to include a number of related sister
sites
that provide services for new and prospective buyers, including
immostreet.com, bellesdemeures.com and agorabiz.com.
Level 3 will support all of these sites with HSIP services via two
gigabit-per-second ports. These services will be delivered via the
Equinix data center and Level 3?s new point-of-presence (PoP) in
Iliad
Entreprises? Vitry colocation facility.
?Our business has grown tremendously over the past few years, and
with
it our bandwidth demand has increased,? said Jean-Michel
Berthelier, IT
Department Director SeLoger.com. ?With their extensive
international
footprint and high level of network scalability, Level 3 was the
ideal
provider to support our current bandwidth demands as well as our
plans
for expansion into new markets.?
As a Tier 1 Internet provider, Level 3?s HSIP services are
designed to
meet the demand of the Internet?s largest bandwidth consumers. The
Level
3 backbone across Europe and North America supports a high
percentage of
on-net traffic, meaning when traffic originates on the Level 3
network,
it makes fewer ?hops? before arriving at most Internet
destinations. The
network also supports an extensive customer peering network to
allow
customer Internet traffic to efficiently travel to virtually any
destination across the Internet.
?For SeLoger.com, whose business is driven primarily by its
Internet
presence, network performance becomes that much more critical to a
positive customer experience and the success of the business
overall,?
said James Heard, president of European Markets. ?Level 3 offers
an
attractive value proposition for European businesses like this
since we
offer Tier 1 international connectivity, low on-net latency and a
highly
fault-tolerant network, combined with a local presence at the
Iliad
collocation facility.?
For more information on Level 3?s European services, please click here.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:LVLT) is a leading
international
provider of fiber-based communications services. Enterprise,
content,
wholesale and government customers rely on Level 3 to deliver
services
with an industry-leading combination of scalability and value over
an
end-to-end fiber network. Level 3 offers a portfolio of metro and
long-haul services, including transport, data, Internet, content
delivery and voice. For more information, visit www.Level3.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
Some of the statements made in this press release are forward
looking
in nature. These statements are based on management?s current
expectations or beliefs. These forward looking statements are not a
guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of
uncertainties
and other factors, many of which are outside Level 3?s control,
which
could cause actual events to differ materially from those
expressed or
implied by the statements. The most important factors that could
prevent
Level 3 from achieving its stated goals include, but are not
limited to,
the current uncertainty in the global financial markets and the
global
economy; disruptions in the financial markets that could affect
Level
3?s ability to obtain additional financing; as well as the
company?s
ability to: increase and maintain the volume of traffic on the
network;
successfully integrate acquisitions; develop effective business
support
systems; defend intellectual property and proprietary rights;
manage
system and network failures or disruptions; develop new services
that
meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; adapt to
rapid
technological changes that lead to further competition; attract
and
retain qualified management and other personnel; and meet all of
the
terms and conditions of debt obligations. Additional information
concerning these and other important factors can be found within
Level
3?s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Statements in
this press release should be evaluated in light of these important
factors. Level 3 is under no obligation to, and expressly
disclaims any
such obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking
statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
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