Year-over-Year Increase in Bandwidth Needs Requires Larger Pipes
for Growing Audience
BROOMFIELD, Colorado,
Jan. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Valve,
a global online gaming company, is working with Level 3
Communications (NYSE: LVLT) to upgrade its network infrastructure
to include 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Internet Service ports.
The upgrade is in response to the substantial rise in popularity of
digital services and online games provided by Steam, Valve's social
entertainment and gaming platform. The new ports will give Valve
the bandwidth necessary to continue providing an optimal experience
as Steam's audience size and usage expands.
Key Facts:
- Level 3's network of 100 Gbps Internet ports is available in 26
markets across North America and
Europe.
- Level 3's global IP backbone capacity is more than 42 Terabits
per second (Tbps).
- Valve's Steam gaming platform has over 100 million users,
averaging more than 10 million concurrent players and over two
billion minutes played logged per day.
- Traffic levels to Steam's servers are growing approximately 75
percent year-over-year.
- Steam averages approximately 450-500 petabytes (PB) of data
worldwide per month and four to five exabytes (EB) of data per
year.
- Steam's standard game release can use 10-40 gigabytes (GB) of
data per user download.
- The global games market is expected to bring in nearly
$75 billion, according to
Superdata.
About Level 3's 100 Gbps Internet Services
Solution:
Level 3's 100 Gbps Internet Services solution addresses a number
of IP-based trends in the marketplace today:
- Growing demand from content companies for larger Internet
capacity to meet end-user expectations.
- Convergence of legacy networks and/or applications onto a
single IP backbone to reduce operational complexity.
- Need for faster, more reliable connectivity to data centers for
business continuity and big data purposes.
- Growing demand for IP-based services, including broadband
Internet, IPTV and VoIP
- Increased consumption on mobile networks fueling demand for
backhaul and aggregation networks.
Key Quotes:
Mike Dunkle, Business
Development, Internet Infrastructure, Valve
"Valve is committed to providing Steam customers with the best
possible experience and services. Level 3 has been instrumental in
helping us scale our network to easily and efficiently manage the
accelerated growth we've seen over the last several years. They're
one of the few providers that offers 100 Gbps Internet ports, which
are now a critical component of our network infrastructure."
Anthony Christie, Chief Marketing
Officer, Level 3
"While online gaming has been around for decades, game
developers and distributors are encountering new challenges as
online games have become more popular and bandwidth-hungry. Level
3's network of 100 Gbps Internet ports enables companies like Valve
to securely handle massive amounts of traffic and bandwidth-heavy
downloads, while still providing millions of customers with the
seamless gaming experience that has made Steam a leading
platform."
Key Resources:
- About Level 3's Internet Services
- About Level 3's Media and Entertainment Services
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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3 Communications, LLC and/or one of its Affiliates in the United States and elsewhere. Any other
service names, product names, company names or logos included
herein are the trademarks or service marks of their respective
owners. Level 3 services are provided by subsidiaries of Level 3
Communications, Inc.
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:
successfully integrate the tw telecom acquisition; 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.
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