AS3356 as of 2007[update] consistently had one of the highest ranked connectivity degrees on the Internet. It ultimately became a part of CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), where Level 3 President and CEO Jeff Storey was installed as Chief Operating Officer, becoming CEO of CenturyLink one year later in a prearranged succession plan. Level 3 Communications was an American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. [33], On November 11, 2010 a dispute arose between Level 3 and Comcast, when Level 3 announced that they were "selected to serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix, Inc. to support the company's streaming functionality. 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[15], On October 31, 2016, CenturyLink announced its intent to acquire Level 3 in a deal valued at around $34 billion.[16]. "[39][40], In July 2013, the NSA was accused of wiretapping large parts of data on the German Internet Exchange Point DE-CIX which was denied by Level 3,[41] and a few months later, was accused of tapping connections between Google and Yahoo data centers. On April 11, 2011, Level 3 announced a tender offer had been made to acquire fellow Tier 1 provider Global Crossing[8] in an all-stock transaction,[9] which was approved by shareholders on August 5,[10] and completed on October 4, 2011. Contact us. The network specialist emphasises that it is typically used to “to mitigate the effects of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over your network”. “It may have been that… the significant load that large number of BGP updates imposed on their routers made it difficult for them to login to their own interfaces”. According to Level3's own history, in 2003, the company acquired Genuity, and, between 2005 and 2007, it purchased several other companies including former rivals WilTel Communications, Broadwing Corporation, Looking Glass Networks, Progress Telecom, and Telcove (formerly Adelphia Business Solutions). Flowspec, or the BGP flow specification, is a feature designed to “propagate filtering and policing functionality among a large number of BGP peer routers” as Cisco describes it. Continue . [14], In July 2015, Level 3 acquired Black Lotus, a provider of protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS). Level 3 Communications operated a large network Internet, with infrastructure in 46 states in the continental United States,[20][21] South America, Western Europe,[4][22] and some cities in Asia. 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