By Justin Lee, February 15, 2011
A screen shot of the FBI's main website(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Content delivery network servies provider Level 3 Communications (www.level3.com) announced on Tuesday it has been awarded a contract to provide CDN services for the FBI's (www.fbi.gov) main website through the agency's prime contract holder Human Touch (www.humantouchllc.com).
The value of the contract has not been disclosed. In 2010, the FBI awarded Human Touch with a $4.9 million, four-year contract to provide technical resources needed to host its new website using a Web 2.0 framework.Under this contract, Level 3 will provide CDN services to improve the site's performance, including loading content more quickly, improving traffic monitoring and improving security while reducing any related costs.
Level 3 will provide caching services for the website and local home pages for the FBI's 56 field offices throughout the US as well as its website for citizens to report suspected terrorism or criminal activity.
The company says its CDN is designed to help customers control all aspects of the delivery, from start to completion.
Level 3's Internet backbone includes a content delivery platform for a highly scalable system, protecting customer websites from denial-of-service attacks.
The website's private cloud infrastructure ensures that the FBI maintains its private information stored on its server behind the firewall.
"The FBI maintains their data on their own server, they handle their own website creation, and they decide when and what to update," says Edward Morché, senior vice president of federal markets for Level 3. "The public looks to the FBI's website for timely, important information, which is why it is critical for the website to be fast and easy to navigate, easy to manage and cost-effective — and that’s exactly what we delivered."
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