The NOC, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is OnNet with GlobalCenter (GC), Qwest Communications and GTE through three separate bandwidth-on-demand connections that enter Baltimore in the building. The OC3 lines extend out from three OC48 lines which are located within the computer room.

GC, a Tier 1 provider with a 13,000-mile fiber optic network and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology that provides an enormous 460 gigabytes per second (Gbps) of capacity worldwide, has an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) fiber node located just a few floors below the NOC.

Qwest comes into Baltimore with an OC-12 lines and plans to upgrade its connection to an OC-48 in the near future. Qwest also has an ATM fiber node just floors below the NOC. The Qwest connection enables the NOC to offer additional redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia. With these carriers, the router has up to 150,000 possible routes to send each packet of traffic.

AT&T is the third Tier One Internet backbone. AT&T Managed Internet Service provides a reliable, dedicated, high-speed Internet connection and industry-leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Your business IP services will reside on AT&T's world-class OC-192/OC-48 IP backbone, providing you with managed, state-of-the-art hardware and software, smart routing capability, and continuous performance monitoring.

Furthermore, because of these unique connections, the NOC does not need to link to the Internet through an OC3 or T3 Telecom circuit. Instead, independent cables run inside the the building directly from the NOC to all three carriers' points of presence. These lines can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3 with DWDM. Plus, they handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3. Whatever your bandwidth needs may be, Web Site Source has the scalability to meet them.

In early October 1999, connectivity from Level 3 Communications® was added. Level 3 was described in USA Today as "a dream team with a dream network." With the fundamental change in communication technology at hand, they are the first to build an international end to end communications network, based entirely on IP technology. To implement this new technology, Level 3 plans to construct local networks in 50 cities across the United States, all interconnected by an intercity or long distance network that will extend nearly 16,000 miles.