AnythingSurplus.com to Use Level 3 IP Collocation Facilities.MARINA DEL REY Del Rey may refer to:
AnythingSurplus.com, a division of Multimedia Industries Corp. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :MMIC (Monolithic Microwave IC) An integrated circuit used in high-frequency applications such as mobile phones. Also known as "monolithic microwave/millimeter-wave IC," MMICs combine transistors and passive devices (resistors, capacitors, etc. ), announced its entry into the "Level 3 Partner Alliance Program" with Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) technology pioneer Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications NASDAQ: LVLT is a communications and information services company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA. (Nasdaq:LVLT LVLT Level 3 Communications, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). AnythingSurplus.com will be the first discount surplus inventory store to cater to the online public, price-sensitive low-income consumers, one of the fastest-growing Web demographics. AnythingSurplus.com announced that Level 3 Communications (www.Level3.com) has agreed to host the AnythingSurplus.com Web site, which will allow viewers to experience it as efficiently as possible. The site is scheduled to launch Jan. 10, 2000. Strategic alliances are a key element in AnythingSurplus.com's business strategy. Level 3 is the first company to build an advanced fiber-optic network, combining both local and long-distance IP technology, connecting customers end-to-end. The network will consist of fiber-optic loops within major metropolitan areas as well as inner city networks connecting them. The plans call for the network to be extended from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to Europe and Asia. Since voice is a diminishing percentage of communications traffic, due to the significant growth in data transmission, IP technology is becoming far more economically and technologically reasonable. The technology breaks down information into pieces, places them into electronic packets, and then fills a pipe with these packets of information. Routers direct the information along the fastest route to its destination, where all of the pieces of information are reassembled, ready for receipt by fax, computer or listener. All of this takes place in a fraction of a second. Because of this, AnythingSurplus.com announced that it will locate its Web site equipment in Level 3's IP Collocation facility. Forward-looking statements and comments in this news release are made pursuant to safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements relating to, among other things, the prospects for the companies to complete the transaction and enhance operating results, are necessarily subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which are significant in scope and nature. These risks may be further discussed in periodic reports and registration statements to be filed by the company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the future. |
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