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SEGMENT BROCHURE
GLOBAL FINANCE SOLUTIONS
TRUSTED CONNECTIONS FOR
THE FINANCIAL ECOSYSTEM
SEGMENT BROCHURE
IN SEARCH OF LIQUIDITY
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND COMPLIANCE
Markets change rapidly. Opportunities are fleeting and harder to find in today’s fragmented and
highly regulated financial markets. Volumes are soaring. Trading desks and back offices generate
quadrillions of transactions that traverse the world – constantly challenging both network and
systems performance. Those able to scale operations and gain proximity to the next-frontier market
or dark pool of liquidity can have the edge.
Growing Challenges Meet Cost Pressures Level 3 Connects the Financial Sector
The ramifications of regulatory compliance, consolidation, Financial businesses are increasingly relying on Level 3
globalization and the need to bring operational costs down, Communications to deliver agile, diversely protected, direct
are being felt throughout the financial ecosystem. Business connections to the most vibrant financial and business
is diversified more geographically. Economic choices can now centers around the world. We offer low network latency even
be made about where best to locate operations or centers of during peak surges, with lower cost entry to new markets and
excellence. Legacy systems need rationalizing, upgrading, or liquidity opportunities. You can get on net, and take advantage
moving to the cloud. Greater transparency and security are of co-hosting and disaster recovery capabilities. We deliver
required to deliver a global and local view of exposure to risk. your data over our robust, resilient communications
Network traffic is surging. But can yours sustain this growth? infrastructure, backed by local services. Level 3 can deliver
it all on a scale that keeps pace with your global ambitions.
Customers’ Expectations Reach Across Devices
In the retail banking, wealth management and insurance Why Level 3?
sectors, customer satisfaction and loyalty are increasingly
dependent on a personalized, omni-channel experience. • Local-to-global capabilities to support growth in new
Online and on-the-move customers want a unified, markets – Our global footprint means that we can serve as
convenient, reliable customer experience, no matter how your single network services provider across town, across
they connect. This kind of brand experience relies on data and the country or across the globe. Our reach extends from
platforms converging seamlessly. Virtual banking and video- North America to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin
enabled contact centers are also gaining momentum, putting America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
even more pressure on network security and performance.
• Extensive undersea and terrestrial facilities – We wholly
own and operate our network. We expect to complement
You Need to Support Growth, Efficiency
our AC1 and AC2 transatlantic routes with new transatlantic
and Security
wireless services, planned for early 2014.
Success is about cost-effective access to new markets. You
need the capability to move, manage and secure ever-growing • Committed to financial customers – We are a Fortune 500
volumes of financial data – globally – over a multi-layered, company that provides communications services to eight
resilient, high-performing communications network. It is also out of the 10 largest U.S. banks, three of the world’s top
about delivering innovative online financial services, fixed and five financial exchanges, and seven of the top market data
on the move. And you need to do it with lower operational costs, providers.
compliance with regulatory requirements and protection for
• Backed by SLAs – Up to 99.999 percent service levels are
customer and business data.
available to back your diverse, resilient communications.
• Engineered for Security – Security accreditation from the
US and UK governments
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ENABLING SOLUTIONS FOR
A BETTER CONNECTED FINANCIAL WORLD
As the financial world becomes one global, always-on market, our network is an enabler. You need
to trade across borders, reach new markets and deploy sophisticated strategies and technologies,
such as smart order routing, knowing that the higher volumes of traffic generated will reach their
destinations safely and securely. Settlement has become global, too, with venues competing on least-
cost execution.
Connecting you to the heart of Cost-effective reach into
global liquidity and trading locations new and emerging markets
We own and operate a vast, carrier-grade, highly connected Our aim is to help you into new markets early and keep
fiber network. We provide the access, speed, redundancy, costs low by minimizing your capital outlay and maximizing
and security required to meet the burgeoning demands of the access. For example, we are expanding routes and capacity
financial services industry. Every day, we transport trillions to new sources of liquidity in Latin America, South Africa and
of transactions and huge volumes of market data over the Eastern Europe.
Level 3® Network directly into the heart of the world’s leading
financial centers, exchanges, MTFs, ATSs and ECNs.
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Level 3 owns and operates key transatlantic AC1 and AC2
sub-sea systems to support fast business-critical connections
between New York and London. Other key financial centers,
including, Chicago, New York/New Jersey, Washington DC,
San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan,
Moscow, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich, Johannesburg and Dubai
are within a few milliseconds reach. In total, we have six As well as increasing the scale and scope of our network,
routes across the Atlantic to offer the diversity you need for we are quick to adopt new technologies, such as 100 Gbps
business resilience. interfaces and more sophisticated security technologies.
Staying ahead of our customers’ future needs is a
Level 3 commitment.Supporting continuity of operations New York
Speed is not your only concern. Continuity of
service is vital. Low latency is meaningless if you
cannot connect to market data, trading venues,
counterparties or clearing houses. With our
network ownership and route diversity come
the controls to underpin availability, quality of
service, performance and resilience. We are able
to monitor traffic, reduce bottlenecks and take
pre-emptive and preventative action – and we back EXTEND YOUR REACH
it with SLA guarantees.
WITH LEVEL 3
• 500+ global network markets,
Simplifying operational including 170 metro markets
complexity with one supplier
• 100,000 Intercity route miles
Business and application priorities, the nature and
• 30,000 metro route miles
sensitivity of your traffic will determine the levels
of security, network monitoring and service levels • More than 55 countries served
you require. High capacity private wavelengths and • Reaching 5 continents
point-to-point connections, metro or long-haul,
CDN, Ethernet, IP VPN or converged voice, data,
video and multimedia applications with MPLS – it
takes just one provider relationship to manage.
Level 3 can custom design the lowest cost solution
– even creating and running a custom private ON-NET
network on your behalf – that best optimizes speed,
• 8 of the top 10 U.S. banks
security, reach and performance while maximizing
your return on investment. • 3 of the top 5 global financial exchanges
Dealing directly with the network owner enhances
service, enabling a fast response to change
requests and fault handling while reducing your
administration and total cost of ownership. LondonWith one of the world’s largest, most advanced IP networks, Level 3 can help you create a more efficient, more flexible, more capable business. Our network extends to North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific region. And it’s connected by extensive undersea facilities that connect five continents. Because we own and control our continuously upgradable network, we are in direct command of network performance. You can count on secure, reliable delivery of your data, voice and video services. © Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. In some markets Level 3 provides service through the use of in-region partners.
ON-NET MARKET WITH METRO NETWORK
ON-NET MARKET
OWNED NETWORK
LEASED NETWORK
END-TO-END A NETWORK BUILT FOR IP
GLOBAL NETWORK IP technology is the key to enabling next-generation solutions for cloud computing,
• More than 55 countries collaboration and virtualisation. From our inception, we built the Level 3 Network
• More than 500 global markets with IP in mind, designing a network that looked beyond legacy technology.
• ~100,000 route miles
We took advantage of IP mesh networking with redundant routes, diversity and
• ~30,000 metro route miles scalability to grow and support modern applications and to provide reliable service.
• ~35,000 subsea miles And we continue to grow our network, bringing more on-net connectivity to
• ~170 global metro markets business locations like yours.SEGMENT BROCHURE
GLOBAL CYBER, ATM HEIST NETS THIEVES $45 MILLION FROM 26 COUNTIES
EIGHT PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN NEW YORK FOR PARTICIPATING IN A GLOBAL SCHEME THAT STOLE ATM PINS AND
SIPHONED MILLIONS FROM BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
THE PERPETRATORS HAD ALLEGEDLY USED SOPHISTICATED INTRUSION TECHNIQUES TO HACK INTO THE SYSTEMS OF GLOBAL
BANKS, STEAL DEBIT CARD DATA AND ELIMINATE THE WITHDRAWAL LIMITS ON CARDS THEY OBTAINED BEFORE MAKING
FRAUDULENT ATM WITHDRAWALS IN LOCATIONS ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
– AS REPORTED BY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, MAY 9 2013OPTIMIZING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
SCALE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
When transactions and traffic are peaking and surging, they can place a huge strain on banking
performance and slow down other critical systems.
Optimize customer experience online and on
Colocating or hosting your systems in any of our 350
the move
carrier-neutral data centers can help you reduce your own
Enabling customers to self-serve has become important IT footprint, support disaster recovery efforts, migrate
to retail banking, insurance and investment firms looking to modern platforms and scale resources on demand.
to reduce costs. Mobile payments and online banking Located in 47 countries, each data center provides high-
are growing exponentially. Fast delivery of all types of speed, on-net access and close proximity to the world’s
content and a satisfying customer experience are vital financial centers. Our state-of-the-art facilities deliver
for competitive advantage, building customer loyalty and multiple security layers, have redundant power systems,
providing rapid access to cloud-based applications. enhance availability and support regulatory requirements
for security and disaster recovery.
More than 1 billion mobile phone users will have used their
device for banking purposes by 2017 (Juniper Research).
The days of a cut-down version of your website for mobiles Manage risk to brand, intellectual
are over. With the Level 3® High Performing Websites
property and customer information
solution, content delivery and mobile acceleration The pressure from regulators to monitor and improve
tools, you can deliver a uniform, device-agnostic brand financial conduct is intense and has never been more
experience, with optimized performance at the network, network-related. Delivering timely information to
delivery and browser levels. management and regulators and protecting digital assets
are both essential for managing risk, as is the need to
More than 60 percent of traffic that starts on our IP back up and recover your critical data within the required
network stays on it for better performance control. And we parameters. Failure to comply carries heavy penalties.
cache files on over 15,000 edge servers for fast delivery.
Level 3 SM Managed Security services connect you with
unique insight across global infrastructures. We leverage
Scale and Agility
advanced predictive technologies to monitor, track and
System resilience and maintaining business continuity combat threats. Our ‘defense in depth’ approach across
are becoming more critical as a result of regulatory physical and logical security enables us to correlate
demands and the growing impact of outages on revenue. activities and identify suspicious actions at the earliest
Mining data to provide targeted offerings and a more opportunities. By integrating security and network
personalized experience that your customers control capabilities, we can correlate events and use security
uses massive bandwidth. Or calling up back-office data intelligence to protect you from data loss, multiple
to display on front-facing customer screens, such as for cyber threats, intrusion and DDoS (Distributed Denial of
insurance quotes, adds to network and system volumes. Service) attacks.SEGMENT BROCHURE
GLOBAL SCALE
BACKED BY LOCAL SUPPORT
AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
The finance industry operates globally; so do our networks. But when it comes to customer
service or professional advice on reducing costs, support is best provided locally.
Local-to-Global support
Level 3 offers end-to-end, 24 x 7 support throughout North “IF YOU WERE TO TAKE EVERY WORD WRITTEN
America, in 23 European countries, and across Latin IN THE HUMAN LANGUAGE – THROUGHOUT
America, Asia and Africa. ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY, IN ALL LANGUAGES
AND IN ALL FORMATS – AND COMBINED THAT
WITH ALL MOVIES EVER RECORDED IN BLU-RAY,
Key Facts
THEN TOPPED IT OFF WITH EVERY SONG IN THE
• Local-to-global-to-local connectivity ITUNES LIBRARY, OUR NETWORK CARRIES ALL
• Highly interconnected THAT 1,350 TIMES A DAY.”
• Direct on-net connection to many sources of liquidity and market
data – JACK WATERS, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, LEVEL 3
• Low-cost access to new markets
• More low-latency route options than many other carriers
• Direct paths to 15 top global financial exchanges
• Six diverse transatlantic routes enabling end-to-end access to key
exchange locations in Europe
• 15 international, national and regional financial exchanges, 15
of the leading ECNs and trading platforms, 7 top market data
providers all use Level 3
• 350 data centersMOVE WITH LEVEL 3 TOWARDS A NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MODEL THAT CAN FLEX TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE MOMENT. CONTACT US TODAY: 1- 8 7 7-2LE V EL 3 | INF O @ LE V EL 3.C OM | W W W.LE V EL 3.C OM
1-877-2LEVEL3
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© 2013 Level 3 Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Level 3, Level 3
Communications, and the Level 3 Logo are either registered service marks or
service marks of Level 3 Communications, LLC and/or one of its Affiliates in the
United States and/or other countries. Level 3 services are provided by wholly
owned subsidiaries of Level 3 Communications, Inc. Any other service names,
product names, company names or logos included herein are the trademarks or
service marks of their respective owners.
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