SÃO PAULO, Oct. 11, 2016
/PRNewswire/ -- The state of São Paulo's Regional Council for
Engineering and Agronomy (CREA-SP), needed to update its legacy
technology and selected Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT)
to provide the committee's registration and activity management
systems.
Through a bidding process, Level 3 was selected to host and
store CREA-SP's registration system, CREANet and its
Documentum tool, which enables the management of customer
service activities in the council's web environment. Contracted
services include a protected Local Area Network (LAN-to-LAN)
connection, internet, backup and installation, and configuration,
monitoring, management and maintenance services.
Key Facts:
- CREA-SP is Latin America's
largest council for the inspection of professional practice.
- The technical solution includes a corporate computer network
with virtualization services, backup, security services,
monitoring, management of cloud and virtual servers and a
LAN-to-LAN connecting CREA-SP's headquarter to Level 3's data
center in Cotia.
- Level 3's global backbone, with extensive flexibility and
reach, supports all of CREA-SP's data movement, which is now done
through a secure communications channel with high availability and
capability. The servers possess the same digital certifications
utilized in Internet Banking systems.
- Level 3's power substation with a capacity of 20 MW at the data
center ensures continuity of power supply for the operation of
equipment and applications, and played a key role in CREA-SP's
selection.
About Level 3's Data Center Network:
- Level 3 operates three data centers in Brazil, and approximately 360 worldwide.
- Level 3's global data center footprint has direct connectivity
to its more than 320,000 km of fiber network and metro market reach
in more than 60 countries with a comprehensive services
portfolio.
- Level 3 meets a wide variety of data center demands, ranging
from cloud and virtual services to hosting, storage and backup to
operating system management.
- Level 3 data centers are managed on-site by a team of
specialized technicians.
- For more information about Level 3's data center services,
visit: http://datacenters.level3.com/.
Key Quotes:
Erick Mendes, IT Manager,
CREA-SP
"By signing this project with Level 3, a global company
providing highly reliable services in the market, we were able to
achieve our target of modernizing our technology infrastructure. As
a result, CREA-SP is able to provide a huge leap in the quality of
the service provided to our customers and professionals."
André Magno, Director of Data Center and Security, Level 3
Brazil
"We know customer experience and flexibility are key
differentiators that create loyal and satisfied users. We focus on
professional services for customers with complex computing
environments so we can provide highly availability, secure services
to help their business grow."
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500
company that provides local, national and global communications
services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. Level 3's
comprehensive portfolio of secure, managed solutions includes fiber
and infrastructure solutions; IP-based voice and data
communications; wide-area Ethernet services; video and content
distribution; data center and cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves
customers in more than 500 markets in over 60 countries across a
global services platform anchored by owned fiber networks on three
continents and connected by extensive undersea facilities. For more
information, please visit www.level3.com or get to know us on
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expectations or beliefs. These forward-looking statements are not a
guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of
uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Level
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factors that could prevent Level 3 from achieving its stated goals
include, but are not limited to, the company's ability to: increase
revenue from its services to realize its targets for financial and
operating performance; develop and maintain effective business
support systems; manage system and network failures or disruptions;
avert the breach of its network and computer system security
measures; develop new services that meet customer demands and
generate acceptable margins; manage the future expansion or
adaptation of its network to remain competitive; defend
intellectual property and proprietary rights; manage risks
associated with continued uncertainty in the global economy; manage
continued or accelerated decreases in market pricing for
communications services; obtain capacity for its network from other
providers and interconnect its network with other networks on
favorable terms; successfully integrate future acquisitions;
effectively manage political, legal, regulatory, foreign currency
and other risks it is exposed to due to its substantial
international operations; mitigate its exposure to contingent
liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of its debt
obligations. Additional information concerning these and other
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