Because Level 3 owns its network, it has the infrastructure to cut CDN prices by what has to be more than half. The move is one that would be hard for Limelight and Akamai to replicate, because they don’t own backbones of their own — in fact, they hav
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Level 3 is trying its best to transform itself from a pure vanilla long haul carrier to a bandwidth operator with deep metro links. The company has been making acquisitions to go after the metro market opportunities, hoping that those will be enough to co
Better late than never. The timing of the merger is perfect. Internet2’s new network with 100 Gbps capacity is going to be completed this spring. NLR which owns its own infrastructure has its entire 11,700-mile nationwide backbone fully operational.
