Because he wants to embed these concepts and ideas into every part of the organization, I can practice OR development and make a very direct contribution to the success of the company. Level 3 Communications is at the forefront of the telecommunications revolution. Because of the price elastic nature of demand for our products and services, this dropping price environment will help to explode the market. We offer dark fiber, private lines, wavelength services, internet connectivity, colocation services, managed modem services, and voice over IP to these customers. Level 3 has many challenges to realize its goals and operations research will be a central building block to doing that.
Optimization is at the core of our efforts.
We are also developing routing algorithms and other optimization models to determine cost efficient and balanced ways to build and run traffic over our network. Forecasting and simulation techniques have also come in handy. It is safe to say that we need to be ready, willing, and able to address and answer some of the most difficult OR problems being conceived in business today. The Business Optimization group numbers over 15 and is growing every month. We will build the ORMS capability to whatever it needs to be to make Level 3 successful.