The Level 3 Communications® Network today operates as one of the largest IP transit networks in North America and Europe.
The Level 3® Network was designed to maximize coverage, performance, flexibility and scalability. They offer more long-haul and metro route options than other providers. In addition to their intercity route miles, they give customers access to approximately 27,000 metropolitan route miles.
Their high-capacity, nationwide backbone was recently overbuilt with new DWDM, IP and private-line switching layers. Level 3 technology deployments have enabled new, market-leading services like 10 GigE LAN PHY and 40 Gbps Wavelength services.
Level(3) Network Map
InterNAP
Using its patented technology and the existing Internet network infrastructure, Internap created an innovative way to route data and avoid the Internet’s points of congestion. Rather than relying on access to a single Internet Service Provider (ISP), the Internap® Performance IP service intelligently routes across major Internet backbones via the Internap P-NAP facilities. This insulates traffic from the risk of network outages, providing reliable, stable and consistent connectivity.
Internap has developed proprietary route control platforms that overcome the limitations of traditional routing policies. Their technology monitors the performance of each Internet backbone, routing your traffic across the best path to provide faster and more reliable delivery than traditional routing methods. The Internap route control technology considers path characteristics like latency, packet loss, route stability and congestion when making routing decisions. Decisions are made dynamically and automatically to account for network performance changes, without the need for manual intervention.
InterNAP Network Map
Cogent Communications
Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet service provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Their primary service offering consists of Internet access and data transport, offered over our award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in any of our 40 Internet Data Centers. They service two customer segments: “Corporate” (small businesses to Fortune 100 companies) and “NetCentric” (access providers and content providers whose businesses rely primarily on Internet access).
Their innovative, facilities-based network spans across North America, across the Atlantic and throughout Western Europe. With over 59,000 miles of route fiber, they provide service to over 140 major markets and interconnect with over 2,970 other networks.
Cogent Network Map