Level 3 signs contract to provide service to SURFnet

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, June 7, 2002

Level 3 Communications announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply broadband communications services to SURFnet, the Dutch ISP. Level 3 is now providing SURFnet with dedicated Internet access in Amsterdam and wavelengths services between Europe and North America. Kees Neggers, managing director of SURFnet, said that SURFnet is the national computer network for higher education and research in The Netherlands.

It connects the networks of universities, colleges, research centers, academic hospitals and scientific libraries to one another and to other networks in Europe and the rest of the world. In response to numerous inquiries Level 3 has received from concerned companies, Level 3 has established a dedicated customer support organization to assist customers concerned with potential disruptions in service in Europe.

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