COMPAREX Informationssysteme GmbH, Mannheim, leading supplier of IT infrastructures for business solutions, and Level 3 Communications GmbH, Frankfurt/M., supplier of top-performance network transfer capacities, are strengthening their strategic cooperation to provide market-focused resources and services to service providers.
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Mannheim, Germany, 03/2001 The Chairman of the Board of COMPAREX GmbH explained the goals behind the cooperation: "We aim to pool our resources to make greater use of the highly promising future market of "xSP" service providers with a view to providing our customers with an even better level of service and to progressing the development of the IT market. We are looking to significantly enlarge our customer base across the whole spectrum of service providers." These include in particular Internet service providers, application service providers, web content providers and various providers for storage area, disaster recovery and backup solutions.
COMPAREX can provide this group of customers with a highly attractive product and service portfolio, including numerous practise-oriented applications which will enable providers to market their services successfully following a very short start-up phase. As a global IP carrier, Level 3 Communications will provide the technological platforms for future success through its inexpensive backbone capacities, co-location facilities and local and international broadband connectivity and transport capabilities. About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 (Nasdaq:LVLT) is a global communications and information services company offering a wide selection of IP-based services including broadband transport, colocation services, submarine transmission services, and the industry's first Softswitch based services. Softswitches are advanced software based switching systems that enable Level 3 to provide services combining the best features of the Internet and traditional telephone networks.
Level 3 offers services primarily to communications-intensive companies that deliver their services over the Level 3 Network. The Level 3 Network will include metropolitan networks in 56 U.S. markets and 21 European and Asian markets connected by an approximately 16,000 mile U.S. intercity (long-distance) network, an approximately 4,750 mile European intercity network, and both transpacific and transatlantic undersea cables. Level 3 currently offers broadband infrastructure services in 49 U.S. markets, 9 European and 2 Asian markets. Its Web address is www.Level3.com.
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