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Enabling the Adaptive EnterpriseResponses to the Technology Revolution
Mike ParksRegional Director, Sales Engineering
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Level 3 Communications–Company Overview
Over $8B in Annual Revenues
~12,500 Employees
Connecting 60+ Countries and Counting
Approx. 360 Multi-tenant Datacenters
Over 42Tbps of Global IP Capacity
More than 12B+ Minutes Per Month in VoIP Traffic
321,000+ Route Km of Fiber Globally
Level 3 Communications Level 3 Customers
8 of the Top 10 U.S. Based Banks
8 of the Top 10 Internet Service Providers
8 of the Top 10 Global Pharmaceutical Companies
4 of the “Big 6” Movie Studios
8 of the Top 10 Cable MSOs
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Network Scale
Level 3
*Numbers are approximate as of June 2016
Network Scale*
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Enterprises are shifting to a mix of private and public networks and cloud services to pursue cost advantages.
Private-to-Public Networks
Applicationscan be put in
either environment
PrivateData Centers
PublicData Centers
Branch Offices
Virtual Networks
Physical Networks
Network Orchestration and Control
Enterprise IT Gateway Layer
Analytics & Adaptive Control Layer
Network software, specifically open source, SDN, and virtualization, are changing the way
networks function.
Security solutions are increasingly network-based and need to be more uniformly available on both public and private networks, requiring more integration across the ecosystem.
Branch Offices
Network Trends
InternetPrivate Network (VPN)
Security Software
Scale
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Enterprises and web scale companies are in need of significant infrastructure to meet their demands (Buildings, Fiber and 100G).
Trends
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Hybridized Environments• Cloud and hybrid IT environments can change network traffic flows• Enterprises increasingly connect to cloud partners for distribution and hosting applications• Bandwidth consumption of cloud applications are expanding • IT spend on cloud services and technology are continuing to grow• Level 3 can help enable your path to hybrid cloud with flexible and agile connectivity
InternetMPLS/IP VPN or IPSecCarrier Ethernet
Local PoP &Security Gateway
3G/4G/LTECellular Access
Cloud EnvironmentWAN Environment
Split Tunnel IPSec
MPLS + Internet/SAS
Converged Multi-Service Port
IP Interconnects Partners
PrivateCloud
sPrivateCloud
s
Cloud Connect Partners
IPSec Access
WWW
WWW
WWW
WWW
MPLSWWW
PhysicalPort
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Metro Architecture
PACKET NETWORK
Technical specifications• High availability with ring
switching • Redundant head-end
aggregation• MPLS and QinQ• 10G evolving to 100G rings• Continuous performance
measurement• Multiple CPE options• Backup battery power
Level 3 MPLS Level 3 Internet
Nx100GNx100G
100G
10/100GMetro Ring
Service capabilities• Layer 2 access for on-net
buildings• NNI connections for off-net
Ethernet • Supports access for all
services (Internet, Layer 2 VPN, Layer 3 VPN, Voice)
• Ethernet Private Line • Circuit emulation capable
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Level 3 Adaptive Network Control Solutions
ANCS allows customers to control their user experience to the Cloud Control CoS priorities across customer’s VPN
Level 3SM Enhanced Management
Level 3SM DynamicCapacity
Level 3SM Dynamic Connections Solutions*
Level 3SM Dynamic Prioritization*
Visibility into end-to-end performance with
personalized alerting and actions
Real-time portal control, scheduled or automated flexing
of capacity up to x3 / 6Gbps
On-demand connections including to CSPs
Alpha trial done with AWS
On-Demand, real-time control of QoS
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Adaptive Network Control Solutions: SDN-based Life-Cycle Service Orchestration that enables enterprises to dynamically control, scale, create and prioritize network connectivity to improve application performance across their network.
Three-Way ANCS Controls:
Ad-Hoc via portal or APIUseful for moving applications into production or support new services
Automatically Triggered by Enhanced ManagementLow touch option to focus on your business
ScheduledSupporting regular Hybrid workloads such as back-ups or supporting events
*Reflects Level 3’s plan as of September 2016. Subject to change at the sole discretion of Level 3 Communications.
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Dynamic Capacity Mobile App
• Enables MyLevel3SM users to access Dynamic Capacity through a Smartphone or Tablet
• Available to all DC customers with an active MyLevel3SM account for either E-Line / eLynk / Internet / IPVPN
• Supported devices• iOS – iPhone and iPad• Android – Smartphone and Tablet
Extends the Dynamic Capacity Experience to Tablets and Smartphones
Provide circuit status• After logging in, Dynamic Capacity
Customers will see:• Critical Circuit Count (>80% utilization)• At Risk Circuit Count (between 60%
and 80% utilization)• Normal Circuit Count (<60% utilization)
• Easily Activate Now capability• Deactivate capability for circuits with DC
event in progressFor IP VPN customers with EM• Show Application Usage information
• Top ten data types• Top Talkers
ANC Mobile Will:
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Level 3’s Converged Multi-Service Port
Public-Private Agnostic Connectivity
• Applications are moving between private delivery to internet delivery• Customer can select the total bandwidth needed at site and let the converged multi-
service port flex between private and public access to their apps• Local internet breakout to maximize cloud/SaaS performance• Usage-based billing on the port allows customer to pay for the total bandwidth used• Internet can be secured by our extensive network based secure gateway service
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Level 3’s Converged
Multi-Service
Port
MPLS
Private
Internet
Allow applications to seamless change between internet and MPLS delivery
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Level 3 Internet Services
Global, scalable and reliable IP network• Global IP capacity with over
42Tbps • Over sixty 100Gbps
backbone links• More than 4,200 unique
Autonomous System (AS) interconnects
• Global reach with PoPs in over 100 major markets on six continents
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Level 3 customers• 8 of top 10 U.S. internet
service providers (ISPs)• 8 of top 10 Cable MSOs• 8 of top 10 U.S.-based
Banks• Large social networking sites
Proven IP Network Performance• 21Tb of global peering
capacity• More than 60% of the traffic
that originates on the Level 3 Network stays on the Level 3 Network, allowing us to better control performance
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Hybrid WAN Solutions Today
• We’re seeing growing demand for our Hybrid WAN solution set• Fully managed solutions - customers avoid contracting with dozens of service providers
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• Suitable for small branch sites• DIA/Broadband access with optional split tunnel• LAN/Wi-Fi Professional Services• Carrier-agnostic LTE/4G backup for high availability
DIA/Broadband + 4G
• Private MPLS/IP VPN with DIA/Broadband augment• Offload Internet and low-criticality traffic via the Internet• Suitable for supporting the growing number of medium-to-low-criticality applications + critical applications
IP VPN Internet Physical Circuit
MPLSInternet
Customer Sites
MPLSInternet
MPLS + DIA/Broadband
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Carrier-connected Data Center to Broadband connected Branch
Traffic Flow Comparison
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Branch OfficeDatacenter
With Level 3SM Secure Access Servicesand Level 3® Enterprise Security Gateway
Without Level 3
Branch OfficeDatacenter
Broadband aggregator/ISP and your Data Center ISP peer at finite number of traditional peering exchanges which can result in suboptimal network performance and increased latencies
Level 3 localized peering and Enterprise Security Gateway maximizes network performance minimizing latency providing a more MPLS-like experience
Traditional Peering Point Level 3 Peering Points
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Adaptive Hybrid Connect A Flexible, Open, NFV-based System
Internet
Network Services
WAN
NFV at the coreLevel 3 SD-WAN capability
Customer-provided SD-WANSecurity Controls
Dynamic BandwidthWAN Optimization
AnalyticsVoice SBC
Premises
”Whitebox” X.86
• API Driven Platform: Services-agnostic• Open system and whitebox CPE avoids vendor
lock-in• Centralized, open platform relieves the challenge of
stitching overlay networks together • Global availability and direct connections into cloud
service providers• Leverage local peering arrangements to bring
connections on Internet backbone faster• Comprehensive mix of connectivity options: cable,
DSL and cellular Service Chaining Mirrors Computing
Allows compute capacity of NFs to be in cloud or on prem
Abstracting Technology for a Consistent Networking Experience
Reflects Level 3’s plan as of November 2016. Subject to change at the sole discretion of Level 3 Communications.
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Content Delivery Network
• ~75% growth December peak 2014 to December peak 2015
• Focus on performance optimization• New higher-capacity servers• In 2015, we added significant capacity
to the network and interconnects• Deployed new caching architecture to
interconnect more deeply with ISPs • TCP stack tuning• Improvements to rendezvous
technology allowing improved localization
Level 3 Internet
Mid Tier Servers
Edge Proxy Cache
Level 3 Origin Storage
Peers Peers Customers Customers
Customer Origin
Customer Origin
CDN performance has improved substantially
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PRIVATE, SECURE CONNECTIVITY TO THE CLOUD
Level 3 Cloud Connect Solutions offer a private network ecosystem that can connect your enterprise with leading cloud and data center providers around the world. They can provide improved application performance as well as security and flexibility, which allow you to realize all the benefits of the cloud without compromising productivity or revenue.
LEVEL 3® CLOUD CONNECT SOLUTIONS
SCALE NETWORK AND BANDWIDTH ON DEMAND
PRIVATE CONNECTIVITY TO
THE CLOUD
FLEXIBLE ETHERNET AND IP VPN
CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS
CONNECT TO CSP LOCATIONS GLOBALLY
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~87 TBof data per day
We collect
at least one C2network a month
We identify and remove
~1.3 billionSecurity events per day
We monitor
mitigate 40Large scale DDoS attacks a day
We respond to and
48 billion NetFlow sessions per day
We monitor over
daily audits,protect and monitor all our products & systems
We perform
Security from Our Lens
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DDoS
Adaptive Security Architecture
Remote Office 1 Remote Office 2
Internet
Advanced ThreatDetection
IDCMobile Phone
Tablet
Bluetooth
Mobility and IoT“The New Perimeter”
Smartwatch
Level 3 Network
Level 3 Network
IPsecSSL
IP VPN
IPsecSSLIP VPN
Enterprise SecurityGateway
Enterprise SecurityGateway
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*Reflects Level 3’s plan as of September 2016. Subject to change at the sole discretion of Level 3 Communications.
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Threat Intelligence Methodology
Third party dataAggregated third party reputation databases and validation against Level 3 data
Level 3 global data• Level 3 Threat
Research proprietary threat data
Customer data (future)• Customer log data• Deep Packet
Inspection (DPI)
Machine learning
Algorithm scoring
Anomaly detection
Research
Scoring
Tracking
Analysis of existing and new threats includes:
Level 3 Adaptive Threat Intelligence portal
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Security Operation Centers
victim / attack notification
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2 Raw data feed to customer’s SIEM
Enterprise Security Gateway Controls
DDoS Mitigation / Network Protection Controls
Malware Sandboxing
Security Operation Centers “takedowns”
Professional Security Services
3 Email alerts
Real time Threat Intelligence alerts
Future*
Acquisition Analytics Analysis Alerting Actions
*Reflects Level 3’s plan as of January, 2016. Subject to change at the sole discretion of Level 3 Communications.
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Level 3® DDoS Mitigation Service
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• Feb. 22, 2016 Level 3 Opens First Scrubbing Center in Latin America Sao Paulo, Brazil moving to simultaneously respond to an uptick in the region's security breaches while creating a foundation to deliver new security and NFV-based cloud services in Latin America.
AmsterdamSacr
amento
Hong Kong
Amsterdam
Hong Kong
Planned
Launched
Los Angeles
Dallas
ChicagoNew York
São Paulo
LondonFrankfurt
Washington DC
Buenos Aires
Singapore
• Network-based security • 4.5 Tbps. of ingest capacity • Carrier agnostic• Regionally distributed scrubbing centers• Network-based controls• Extensive peering• Backed by threat Intelligence generated
by Level 3 Threat Research Labs• Supported 24x7 by global Security
Operations Centers
Tokyo
Global DDoS scrubbing backed by threat intelligence
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Global - Adaptive Network Security Gateways
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IP POP Co-Location - 40 by year end 2016 and more than 100 globally in 2017*
* Roadmap reflects Level 3’s plans as of May 2016. Subject to change at Level 3’s sole discretion.
Level 3® Enterprise Security Gateway service consists of next generation firewallpolicy rules, device configurations, management, monitoring and break-fix service.
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• Next-gen firewall / Intrusion detection and prevention
• Web content filtering• Anti-malware• Data loss protection• Endpoint protection / Remote access• Carrier agnostic access
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*Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global,” by Neil Rickard, Bjarne Munch, January 14, 2016; Gartner Critical Capabilities for Wireline Telecom Services, U.S. Danellie Young and Sorell Slaymaker U.S. February 29, 2016Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Strong Industry Recognition
Level 3 Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global*2016 Level 3 Communications receives third highest product scores in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Wireline Telecom Services, U. S. report*
2016 Atlantic-ACM U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Service Provider Excellence in Service Delivery and Customer Service 2016 Large Service Provider Excellence Awards in Brand, Network Performance, Customer Service, Data Value and Voice Value
2015 MEF Ethernet Excellence Awards• Retail Service Provider of the Year – North America, Global, and CALA
Wholesale Service Provider of the Year – North America, CALA
Frost & Sullivan Best Practice Award in 2016 and 2015 for: • VoIP Access and SIP Trunking Product Line Strategy Leadership Award
2015 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for: • Business Metro Carrier Ethernet Services for Competitive Strategy and Innovation
Leadership Award• VoIP Access and SIP Trunking Product Line Strategy Leadership Award2016 Vertical Systems Group mid-year Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard2015 Vertical Systems Group year-end U.S. Carrier Ethernet Service Market
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