Level 3 Communications is providing (3)Packet Ethernet service to Sony Online Entertainment to support the online game “EverQuest” and its future releases. Sony’s “EverQuest” is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that potentially involves thousands of individual players who participate by taking on the roles of characters known as “avatars.” The (3)Packet service is carried over Level 3’s MPLS network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Level 3 is the major provider of network services in North America and Europe for Microsoft’s Xbox Live online video game service. Specifically, Level 3 provide its (3)Center Colocation, (3)CrossRoads Internet access, and (3)Packet MPLS Private Network (MPN) services to Xbox Live.