Level 3 Takes Vyvx Services to Europe

Customers Get Access to Broadcast Video Offerings

Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) has expanded its Vyvx services platform to include broadcast video distribution in Europe, in a move that enables more efficient distribution of North American broadcast programming to Europe.

The expansion, the operator adds, provides European customers access to broadcast video delivery over the Level 3 network.

The expansion of the Vyvx services platform to Europe includes new point-of-presence (POP) facilities at the Level 3 gateway in London, as well as new digital video encoding and publishing equipment which facilitates fiber transmission of high-quality, broadcast video in Europe.

Level 3 had previously only offered broadcast video transmission via downlinks to satellite facilities across the continent.

Nonetheless, as part of this expansion of Vyvx services to Europe, Level 3 also added satellite downlink capabilities in Berlin. The company claims these new capabilities “improve end-to-end monitoring of video quality for broadcast traffic delivered via satellite.”

Level 3 now operates four satellite facilities: Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles and Berlin.

The company claims Level 3 Vyvx services, this year alone, covered more than 17,000 entertainment, broadcast and sporting events in North America with more than 158 million minutes of video traffic, an approximate 15 percent increase over 2007.

Level 3 says it averages more than 15,000 fiber and satellite reservations per month of total video broadcast traffic over the Level 3 network.

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