r premise or its network-based distributed denial of service, Mitigation, which protects its business customers from Internet based distributed denial of service attacks. VPN Service: Built on its optical transport network, the company offers customers the ability to create private point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and full-mesh networks based on IP VPN, Virtual Private LAN service, or VPLS, Ethernet Virtual Private Line, or EVPL, or MPLS VPN technologies. These services allow service providers, enterprises and government entities to replace multiple networks with a single solution that simplifies the transmission of voice, video, and data over a single or converged network, while delivering service and security. These services are used for service provider and corporate data and voice networks, data center networking, disaster recovery and out-of-region or redundant customer connectivity for other service providers. VPN services are sold stand-alone or in conjunction with its managed services offerings. Content Delivery Network Services: The company’s content delivery network services combine its IP network, Gateway facilities and patented technology that directs a requestor or end user to the best location or server cluster in its network to retrieve the requested content based on location and network conditions. The company’s caching and download services provide http delivery of large files, such as video, software, security patches, audio and graphics to mass audiences. The company’s streaming service can be used to deliver streams, either live or on-demand, to end users using proprietary protocols. Each service set provides features to enable customers to control their content delivery to ensure quality end-user experience, security, freshness and targeting. The company also offers storage solutions enabling customers to upload and store content to its network as part of an optimized delivery platform. In addition to its delivery services, its patented Intelligent Traffic Management service enables customers to set rules to dynamically route traffic to meet failover or dual vendor objectives. Media Delivery Service: The company offers media delivery service to customers seeking to manage, protect and monetize content delivered over the Internet. The company’s media delivery service extends support for online distribution models and operation by providing customers with means to ingest and digitize live video content and to manage the organization and presentation of both live and on demand video to end users via a content management system. Additionally, support for content monetization via paid and advertising supported models is provided. The company’s media delivery services utilize its content delivery network for the delivery of managed content to end users. Vyvx Broadcast Service: The company offers various services to provide audio and video feeds over fiber or satellite for broadcast and production customers. These services vary in capacity provided, frequency of use (that is, may be provided on an occasional or dedicated basis) and price. The company also offers encoding services to translate the broadcast video feeds it carry for its customers into formats for Internet distribution. Converged Business Network Service: The company’s Converged Business Network service enables customers to connect their offices or other locations with various telecommunications services. The Converged Business Network service combines a customer's services over a single access circuit per customer location. Security Services: Level 3 Security Solutions can be used to enable customers to address the threat of cyber-attack and allow customers to create a secure network, safeguard brand value, enable business continuity, and avoid complexity and cost. The company’s Security Services include Secure Access which provides secure and encrypted connectivity for mobile users or remote offices; Cloud and Premises based Managed Firewall and Unified Threat Management Services, including Intrusion Prevention and Detection service and Web Content filtering; network-based Distributed Denial of Service Mitigation, which