Kieron O'Brien

Level 3 Parent LLC engages in the provision of integrated communications services. The firm offers internet protocol and data such as internet, virtual private network (VPN), Ethernet, content delivery network (CDN), media delivery, vyvx broadcast, managed, and cloud and information technology; and transport and fiber including voice, colocation and data center and security services. It distributes its products to enterprise, content, government and wholesale customers. The company was founded by Kevin J. O'Hara in 1941 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO.

Alcatel Alsthom Cie Generale D'Electricite SA is an international group whose core businesses are telecommunications systems & railroad and energy transportation systems. The group's cable subsidiaryis the largest producer of power transmission cables in the world. The company also produces batteries and has electrical engineering activities. Telecommunications accounted for 44% of 1996 revenues; telecommunication cables, 21%; energy and transportation, 18%; electrical systems, 13%; batteries, 3%, and other, 1%.

Philips GmbH provides consumer electronic equipment. Its products include domestic appliances, personal care, home entertainment networks and mobile infotainment products. It also provides medical systems like diagnostic imaging systems, customer services and clinical solutions. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Understanding the strategic importance of online delivery, PacketExchange has defined a series of solutions that give the greatest possible protection to this digital revenue stream. While the simplest solution is to deploy connections to multiple IP Transit providers from each business location, this leaves today's Enterprise at the mercy of the unmanaged and inherently insecure and unreliable public Internet. As such PacketExchange believes hybrid solution of internet access and private networking will be best placed to achieve the goals of performance, flexibility and reliability sought in the ever changing commercial environment, while always mindful of achieving the benefits of private networking at Internet economics. The requirements of today's distribution solutions outstrip capabilities delivered in earlier delivery system approaches. As corporations have fundamentally changed the ways they use the Web, the nature of the delivery systems must also fundamentally change. PacketExchange meets and exceeds the requirements of today's Web applications by changing the delivery mechanism from a tactical infrastructure cost to a strategic solution asset that ensures safe, reliable and consistent revenue delivery. It is the only delivery platform that bypasses the shortcomings of earlier generation delivery networks-whether Internet acceleration, application acceleration or Internet measurement.