Your business may have only modest storage requirements in the early phases; but you need a storage solution that can scale as your business grows. Level 3 has over 300TB of storage already deployed, and a planned deployment of 1.2PB by the end of 2008. Level 3 is committed to making content storage capacity available when you need it.
Level 3 has developed intelligent algorithms that pre-position your content to the right servers at the right time. A variety of methods are in place to ensure that your content library is safe, secure and redundantly stored so you can be confident that your assets are securely held and ready for delivery when you need them. The service combines mirroring, RAID, and geographic diversity with the latest firewall technology, and is backed with a 100 percent SLA on the availability of content storage.
The ability to easily manage your asset library is critical to efficient delivery and monetization of your content. Level 3 offers several standard methods of asset management including Secure FTP, r-sync, SOAP and REST command sets. If your company has its own Digital Asset Management system and needs access to an API, the system can support those needs as well.
Origin Storage super nodes are strategically positioned around the world with direct and redundant connections to the Level 3 Content Delivery Network. By combining multiple, geographically diverse locations and redundant 10 GigE connectivity to the industry-leading CDN platform, costly “hops” around the network are minimised. We can help you deliver and monetize your content while decreasing or completely eliminating “hits” to your own origin storage.
The economies of scale built into our Origin Storage super nodes produce highly accessible pricing. The pricing structure means that customers only pay for the storage and delivery that is used in any given month.
“We believe that the business of providing a solution for the efficient delivery of entire libraries of content, not just the most popular titles, will be increasingly important as online content distribution matures.”
Grant van Rooyen, president of Level 3’s Content Markets Group.
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