As more and more consumers rely on Web-based content as their primary resource for news, entertainment and more, user expectations and demands on content delivery skyrocket. Thanks to Level 3^SM Media Delivery Services (MDS), content owners can effectively manage, protect and monetize their media. The MDS solution is ideal for customers who seek a means to support subscriber-based paid access to premium content and need to manage content presentation, subscriber transactions, content delivery and comprehensive reporting in a single media-delivery package.

Additionally, our MDS offering may be used in conjunction with other Level 3 Communications content services to address needs that range from content acquisition to delivery.

Media Delivery Service Details

• Ingest, organize, present and publish media content in a well-designed management environment.

• Tools include user authorization and authentication, session management, token-based URL authentication, geo blocking and geo targeting based on end-user location, and integrated digital rights management (DRM) support.

• Support for subscription-based and pay-per-view services include payment-transaction processing, services requiring user authentication against external subscriber databases, publisher-served advertising support and integration with third-party ad servers.

• We support delivery of published content via Level 3^® Caching and Download and Streaming platforms.

• Comprehensive reporting includes content-consumption patterns and a customer-relationship management (CRM) so you can manage and monitor monetization.

Media Delivery Service Benefits

• Avoid difficulties in interoperability, fault finding, management or multiple vendors, and reporting inconsistencies with our integrated, single-supplier solution.

• Leverage a robust network and the flexibility you need to allow your Web sites to evolve and mature over time.

• Take advantage of the experience Level 3 Communications has with integrating customer and third-party databases for subscriber authorization and data feeds.

• Develop your Internet TV properties with a number of premium online TV experiences we support.

Read more about why you should team with Level 3 for your Content and Delivery needs.

Download the brochure for more information on our Media Delivery Services.