Level 3 To Provide CDN Services To FBI

Level 3 Communications, providing content delivery network services has bagged a ‎contract through their main contract holder namely Human Touch to provide CDN ‎services for the FBI for an undisclosed amount. A four year long contract for providing ‎technical support perusing Web 2.0 based support to host their new website was awarded ‎by the FBI to Human Touch in the year 2010, at a cost of $4.9 million.‎

Level 3 would provide CDN based services to enhance the performance of the web-site, ‎enable quicker loading of content, facilitate better traffic monitoring and enhance security ‎of the website simultaneously reducing related costs. Caching services as well as ‎updating local home pages have to be provided across FBI’s field offices numbering 56, ‎located in the US along with maintaining the website perused by the public to report ‎suspicious criminal activities and terror threats.‎

The Internet backbone, supported by Level 3 consists of a highly up-gradable content ‎delivery platform, capable of protecting customer websites from denial-of-service threats ‎and attacks. All confidential and private information are stored and maintained on ‎secured servers behind the firewall in a cloud based private infrastructure. ‎

The activities pertaining to maintaining their data on their own servers, creating their own ‎website, and decisions on what and when to update, are performed by the FBI. The public ‎relies on the FBI’s website for timely, critical information. It is imperative that the ‎website remains fast and quick to respond, easy to navigate, manage and also be cost-‎effective.‎