CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the United States and a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprise customers, provides broadband, entertainment, voice, and managed services to consumers and businesses. CenturyLink provides data, voice, wireless, colocation, cloud hosting, and managed services in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers for businesses and consumers. CenturyLink Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers on demand provisioning of high-performing virtual machines with any combination of operating system, storage, and memory. The virtual servers rely on fully redundant enterprise class hardware connected through private high speed virtual LANs and leverage storage that delivers up to 20,000 IOPS. Managed hosting includes provision of centralized IT infrastructure and a range of managed services, including cloud and traditional computing, application management, back-up, storage, and advanced services, including planning, design, implementation and support services. Colocation services enable the Company’s customers to install their own IT equipment in its facilities through its centralized IT infrastructure. Ethernet services include point to point and multipoint configurations that facilitate data transmissions across metropolitan areas and wide area networks. The company also offers advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink Prism TV and DIRECTV brands. CenturyLink is publicly trading in New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CTL, and is included among the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations. CenturyLink was incorporated in 1968, and is based in Monroe, LA.