SAO PAULO, July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Level 3
Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) today announced an agreement with
Fototica, a top eye care provider in Brazil, and member of Grand Vision B.V., a
Dutch holding company that is a global leader in the optical retail
market. Level 3's virtual hosting, colocation and redundancy
services will support Fototica's business operations in the
Brazilian states of Sao Paulo,
Bahia, Pernambuco and Sergipe.
Fototica selected Level 3 to provide efficient and secure
services for its growing business. Level 3's data center services
will connect Fototica's 800 employees and sellers—throughout its
120 stores—to critical data needed to perform sales operations as
well as other processes, such as product changes, stock control and
communicate with optical laboratories located in Sao Paulo and Salvador. The company's data will be hosted at
Level 3's data center servers based in Latin America, where it can be securely
accessed at any time by the company's financial team in its
regional headquarters.
"Fototica performs critical operations that require
around-the-clock support, redundancy and high capacity to assist an
average of 30,000 customers a day, and the order of 15,000 glasses
on a monthly basis," said Rodrigo
Baldini, IT director at Fototica. "Today, thanks to Level
3's services, our capacity and security have increased to meet our
current customer demand and we have the additional comfort of
knowing we can expand our projects when it is required through
Level 3's scalable solutions."
"Level 3 makes ongoing investments to develop advanced data
center services to help clients, like Fototica, take their business
to the next level," said Marcos
Malfatti, senior vice president of Sales for Level 3 Brazil.
"This project will help Fototica optimize the management of their
points of sale, improve their organizational efficiency and provide
high-level security for its important data."
Level 3 operates more than 350 data center and collocation
facilities worldwide, including assets in North America, Europe and Latin
America. These facilities offer the uptime and redundancy
necessary to ensure enterprises, carriers and government agencies
have continual access to their critical data and applications to
maintain continuity of operations.
For more information about Level 3's advanced network and
service offerings, visit www.level3.com.
About Fototica
Fototica, one of the major optical
networks in Brazil is part of
Grand Vision, Dutch Holding world leader in optical retail with
more than 4,000 stores in Europe,
South America, Middle East, and India. The company sells full glasses – frame
and lenses –, sunglasses, and contact lenses. It owns 120 stores in
four Brazilian states: Sao Paulo,
Bahia, Pernambuco and Sergipe. They operate with domestic and
international brands, including fashionable brands such as Ray-Ban,
Carrera, Gucci, Prada, Hugo Boss,
Lacoste and Dior, among others, in addition to their exclusive
brands, sold throughout the whole Grand Vision network. Directed by
Alvaro Vieira, it has approximately
800 employees in Brazil.
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 Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.
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Communications, Inc.
The information contained under the caption "About Fototica"
has been provided by Fototica, which is solely responsible for its
content.
Forward-Looking Statement
Some statements made in
this press release are forward-looking in nature and are based on
management's current 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 3's control, which could cause actual events to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by the
statements. Important factors that could prevent Level 3 from
achieving its stated goals include, but are not limited to, the
company's ability to: manage risks associated with continued
uncertainty in the global economy; increase revenue from its
services to realize its targets for financial and operating
performance; maintain and increase traffic on its network; 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 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; attract and retain qualified management and other
personnel; 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 important factors
can be found within Level 3's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Statements in this press release should be
evaluated in light of these important factors. Level 3 is under no
obligation to, and expressly disclaims any such obligation to,
update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result
of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Contact Information
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Media:
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Investors:
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Ashley Pritchard
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Mark Stoutenberg
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+1 720-888-5950
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+ 1 720-888-2518
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Ashley.Pritchard@Level3.com
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Mark.Stoutenberg@Level3.com
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Paula Vivo
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Latin America
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+55 11-3957-2424
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Paula.Vivo@Level3.com
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