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• Level 3 and Limelight Patent Suit: Here's How to Settle It

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-01-07

  Dan Rayburn submits: On Monday, in the Eastern District Court of Virginia, the Level 3 LVLT and Limelight Networks LLNW patent suit got underway. While this is only the start of what is expected to be a long and drawn out legal proceeding, I think Level 3 and Limelight...

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• Details from the Markman Ruling in Level 3 and Limelight Patent Case

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-16

  Dan Rayburn submits: Over the weekend I got to read through the Markman order that was issued on December 10th in the Level 3 LVLT and Limelight Networks LLNW patent suit. While a Markman hearing typically does not bring a lot of surprises, there were some interesting...

  Tags: Internet, Dan Rayburn, Limelight Networks Inc., Level 3 Communications Inc.

• Level 3 Cuts Jobs, CDN Group Still Growing; Should Do $45-50 Million

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-08

  Dan Rayburn submits: Level 3 LVLT announced yesterday that it would be laying off 450 employees in North America or about 8% of its total workforce. While that's not good news for the company as a whole, the company has confirmed that the CDN group is not being affected...

  Tags: Internet, Dan Rayburn, Level 3 Communications Inc.

• Level 3 Communications, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-23

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator (Operator instructions.) And we will go to John Hodulik with UBS. John Hodulik – UBS Thanks, good morning. A couple quick questions on BMG and the negative revenue trend there. First, Jim, you made a comment that you thought small company disconnects would slow. You...

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• Level 3 Communications Is at an Attractive Stock Price

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-22

  Richard Jones submits: [[LVLT]] traded at a high of $3.53 a share on 9/19/2008 a day after Janco Partners analyst resumed Accumulate rating with a $4 Target. LVLT stock price has had a huge selloff, down now at $1.28 a share. I believe LVLT now looks really good for a trade....

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• Visual Analytics Achieves Protection Level 3 Certification for its Analytical Software Under the Security Requirements of the Department of Defense's Common Criteria

  - 2008-10-06

  VisuaLinks Officially Certified to Run as an Enterprise-level Service Oriented Architecture SOA FREDERICK, Md., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual Analytics Inc. VAI announced today that the Department of Defense DoD Intelligence Information System DoDIIS Independent Test Authority ITA certified the VisuaLinks software (current version 5.1) for Protection Level...

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• Fair Value Rule Could Hit RenaissanceRe With Losses

  BNET - 2008-10-03

  Looking to divert attention away from their own incompetence, many investment bankers on Wall Street are calling for the elimination of mark-to-market accounting, a framework adopted by companies to make more transparent the current values of certain often illiquid financial instruments. In my opinion, a likely critic of fair value,...

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• Fair Value Rule Could Flood RenaissanceRe Holdings with Losses

  BNET - 2008-10-03

  Looking to divert attention away from their own incompetence, many investment bankers on Wall Street are calling for the elimination of mark-to-market accounting, a framework adopted by companies to make more transparent the current values of certain often illiquid financial instruments. In my opinion, a likely critic of fair value,...

  Tags: Asset, Financial, Level 3 Communications Inc., Investment Portfolio, Company, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, David Phillips

• Top 10 Networking Stocks

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-17

  Sramana Mitra submits: The phenomenal trends of online video through YouTube, video conferencing, and online entertainment are driving the networking industry. Here’s my list of the top 10 networking stocks. 1. Cisco CSCO by Sramana Mitra

  Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Networking, Akamai Technologies Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., 3Com Corp., Foundry Networks Inc., F5 Networks Inc., Juniper Networks Inc., Level 3 Communications Inc., Nortel Networks Corp., Polycom Inc.

• Akamai and the BBC: News Reporting on CDNs Getting Shoddy

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-22

  Dan Rayburn submits: While I think it's great that more folks are starting to write about the content delivery market as it pertains to video, lately, too many articles being published are full of inaccurate and just flat out wrong info. Earlier in the week, there was the ZDNet...

  Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Internet, Networking, Limelight Networks Inc., Level 3 Communications Inc.

• Video CDN Revenue Will Grow to over $1.4 Billion by 2012

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-21

  Dan Rayburn submits: Tuesday, on my Frost & Sullivan webinar about the video CDN market, we released preliminary data from the upcoming Frost & Sullivan report entitled "World Content Delivery Networks Market". Due out next month, this report will break out the worldwide CDN revenue, specific to video delivery...

  Tags: Networking, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks Inc., Level 3 Communications Inc.

• Interview with Level 3 CEO Jim Crowe on CDN Business

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-20

  Dan Rayburn submits: In trading some e-mails with Jim Crowe recently, he was nice enough to spend some time to answer questions about Level 3's LVLT CDN business for publishing here on the blog. While Level 3 has been pretty quiet in regards to their CDN business and the...

  Tags: Level 3 Communications Inc., Networking, Akamai Technologies Inc.

• Current State of the Content Delivery Market

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-17

  Dan Rayburn submits: To those who are new to the online video industry, it may seem like the content delivery market has been around for only a few years. But amazingly, 2008 marks the 13th year since some of the first content delivery networks [CDNs], such as Sandpiper and...

  Tags: Internet, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks Inc., Level 3 Communications Inc.

• Cogent, Level 3, TW Suffer As Oppenheimer Grows Cautious About 'Emerging Telecom'

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-13

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Concerned about the impact of the softening economy, Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan this morning turned cautious on the “emerging telecom sector.” He cut his ratings on both Level 3 LVLT and Cogent Communications CCOI to Underperform from Perform, while chopping TW Telecom TWTC to Perform...

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• Level 3 Communications, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-07-24

  Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. And we will take our first question from Mike McCormack with JPMorgan. Michael McCormack - JPMorgan Hey, guys. Thanks. Couple of things. First on the revenue side, I mean, it sounds like from a lot of carriers, who has had a few data points out there...

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• Westar Achieves CMMI® Level 3 Maturity Rating

  - 2008-06-23

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Westar Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc., the Systems Engineering Group of QinetiQ North America, has officially achieved the Software Engineering Institute's SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI[R]) Level 3 Maturity rating. This accomplishment is based on the successful completion of the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for...

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• Level 3 Letter to Stockholders

  - 2008-05-06

  BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications, Inc. today announced that it has posted to its website an open letter to its stockholders from the members of the Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors to provide additional information regarding certain compensation matters. Since the...

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• Level 3 Communications, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-04-23

  Question-and-Answer SessionThank you. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. We will take as many questions as time permits. And our first question today comes from John Hodulik with UBS. John Hodulik - UBS Great. Thank you. Two quick questions. First, I think Jim on the December...

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• NHL SELECTS LEVEL 3 AS STRATEGIC NETWORK PARTNER.

  - 2008-04-01

  Level 3 Communications' Content Markets Group, Broomfield, Colo., has signed a multi-year contract with the National Hockey League NHL to support that organization's video, high-speed Internet Protocol HSIP and content delivery services needs. Through this expanded relationship, Level 3 serves as the primary provider of ...

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• BellwetherReport.com Free Analyst Review for SLM, CSE, CMO and LVLT.

  - 2008-03-14

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