Level 3 to connect New York City to 'Wall Street West'
Omaha.comIf another terrorist attack or major power outage hits Wall Street, new back-up systems in northeast Pennsylvania would take over, government and industry officials said Thursday. A fiber-optic network to link New York City's financial services district to Pennsylvania's so-called "Wall Street West" is planned, under a $40 million project to ensure stock and bond trading continue if disaster strikes. The state of Pennsylvania chose Level 3 Communications Inc., a computer network operator, to link the two systems.
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