"Level 3 admitted it was experiencing hardware difficulties, which appeared to be most prominent for the San Diego and London, UK locations. Keynote said that performance returned to normal at around 7:00 pm eastern standard time."
Who is Level 3? http://www.level3.com/
Level 3 (Nasdaq: LVLT) is an international communications and information services company and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company operates one of the largest communications and Internet backbones in the world.
Level 3 is one of the largest providers of wholesale dial-up service to ISPs in North America and is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers through its cable and DSL partners.
Nine out of ten of the world’s largest telecom carriers all continue to use Level 3 services, as do five of the top six U.S. Internet Service Providers, and nine out of ten of the largest European telecom carriers.
The company offers a wide range of communications services over its approximately 22,500 mile broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport, colocation services, and patented Softswitch-based managed modem and voice services. Services offered under the “Level 3 Communications” brand include: • Wholesale Internet access services • Managed modem dial-up services • Broadband transport • IP-centric voice services • Private packet-switched services • DSL Aggregation • Colocation • Metropolitan and intercity dark fiber • Managed Services (Dedicated Internet Access (domestic and international), Remote Dial-up Access, Managed Internet Security, and Virtual Private Networks)
Based on the amount of Internet traffic on Level 3’s IP backbone, Level 3 is among the top three largest Internet carriers in the world. Through Level 3’s dial-up ISP customers, the company’s dial-up infrastructure is accessible to approximately 90% of the U.S. population. When a typical Internet user at home dials the Internet using a modem in the U.S., there is better than a one-in-three chance that their call is being completed within a Level 3 data center.