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Nov, 2016 : CenturyLink Data Center Strategy Remains the Same
📅 - After making plans to acquire Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink's CEO made the announcement that it won't change the data center strategy for the company. The company is based out of Monroe, Louisiana and it's one of the largest providers of wireline telephone and internet services for consumers and businesses in the US. CenturyLink also operates a global network of data centers with colocation and managed services for customers.
Level 3 will bring in many data centers from all across the world, which are primarily providing colocation services. However, most are not comparable to the CenturyLink data centers, but the acquisition will nearly double the number of data centers for CenturyLink.
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