Network

The New York NOC Inc. utilizes Level 3, Global Crossing, Sprint, Cogent Optical Network, and WV Fiber.

Level 3 owns and maintains over 39,500 intercity route miles and makes more than 77,000 intercity route miles available to our customers. The Level 3 Network today operates as one of the largest IP transit networks in North America and Europe. We deliver services to customers in major markets across the United States and Europe, serving a substantial number of the worlds largest and most sophisticated communications companies, including interexchange carriers, local phone companies, European PTTs, cable operators, ISPs, wireless companies, content providers, and media and entertainment companies, as well as enterprise customers.

The Level 3 Network was designed to maximize coverage, performance, flexibility and scalability. We offer more long-haul and metro route options than other providers. In addition to 39,500 intercity route miles customers can access over 21,000 metropolitan route miles.

The high-capacity, nationwide backbone was overbuilt with new DWDM, IP and private-line switching layers in 2005. In 2006 the long-haul capacity has grown 50 percent. Level 3 plans for backbone capacity to double every two years.

Our voice footprint is expanding with our network. We currently have connectivity to every long-distance tandem office in the United States, and to a large and growing number of end offices. Our customers have the ability to terminate calls anywhere in the world over the Level 3 Network.

The Global Crossing network contains over 100,000 route miles of optical cable around the world. The tier-1 backbone network is constructed with the latest dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. That means easy expandability into the photonic future. And there's no tolerance for down-time, either. A fault-tolerant design ensures our uninterrupted network availability for your critical business applications. Matrix NetSystems Internet Performance Service independently monitors Global Crossing's industry-leading network performance metrics.

Global Crossing has sustained network availability levels of 99.999 percent -- the industry's highest standard. And currently, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) testing is now widely available on Global Crossing's worldwide network. We provided the IP network "engine" that an international academic and research team used last year to set the Internet2® Land Speed Record for sending data around the world - demonstrating the ultimate in end-to-end Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) performance. We now connect some of the most prestigious, bandwidth-intensive, and technologically sophisticated users in the world -- a select group of National and Regional Research and Education Networks.

The Sprint IP backbone has more Autonomous System network connections than any other, with high-speed links that operate up to OC-192 / STM-64 - the fastest speeds available over IP today.

Sprint offers more than 1,100 POPs in over 100 countries throughout the world, and dial IP service is available from almost 17,000 POPs worldwide. Benefit from a full array of global IP and IP VPN services, backed by market-leading SLAs.

Engineered for exceptional performance and availability

You can depend on the Sprint IP network for your most mission-critical business operations. Strengths to note:

• Simple network design - a flat and elegant architecture designed to ensure congestion-free operations with virtually no delay or packet loss.
  
• Unmatched survivability - fully redundant dual-provisioned architecture is survivable even in the most adverse conditions.
  
• Robust Global IP and MPLS backbone - stay connected worldwide with backbone nodes and access points across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Cogent's end-to-end optical network consists of multiple metropolitan IP-over-WDM fiber rings located in Cogent's major markets throughout the United States and Europe. Cogent currently has a presence in over 95 markets throughout North America and Europe. Cogent's network provides each building or data center with up to 5 Gbit/s of dedicated bandwidth. Layer 3 edge routers in each building are connected to Cisco Layer 3 Terabit core routers over two diverse optical paths. These core routers are tied together via an international backbone network consisting of multiple 10 Gbit/s DWDM optical links. With a currently implemented capacity of 80 Gbit/s in the United States and 40 Gbit/s in Europe, Cogent's international IP network is the largest in the world and is scalable to a total capacity of over one Terabit.

WV Fiber's OC-192/OC-48 global IP and transport network, which now includes 20 POPs in 15 cities worldwide, delivers Internet solutions for enterprises, ISPs and carriers. The network connects to more than 400 other networks via peering agreements encompassing the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.