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| | DLD 99-29 - LEVEL 3 BUYS FROM IXC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Valued at a minimum of $70 million, the agreement calls for IXC to lease OC-12 capacity on an initial 7,355 route miles over a dedicated OC-48 ultra high-speed communications backbone to Level 3, enabling the carrier to offer services while building out its own national and local fiber network. |
 | | IXC, with its more than 9,000 mile network, is one of the few carriers that offers OC-12s, OC-48s and OC-192s available today on its network. |
 | | Today's agreement follows IXC's announcement, earlier this week, that IXC has activated the first coast-to-coast, next generation Internet Protocol (IP) OC-48 backbone network, called Gemini2000, to carry both commercial and research community traffic. |
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