The common name shared by communication protocols, technologies and
methods ensuring the transfer of the voice signal via the Internet network or
by any other IP-networks. The signal is transferred by the communication
channel in the digital form and, as a rule, before transferring compresses in
order to remove abundance.
Level 3 (Nasdaq: LVLT) is an international communications and information services company and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company operates one of the largest communications and Internet backbones in the world.