The cloud got a little faster Thursday, as Pando Networks announced it has selected Level 3 communications to support its cloud-based content delivery network. Pando will leverage Level 3's CDN infrastructure to deliver rich media content to commercial customers.

"Level 3's CDN technology enables us to expand our content delivery cloud service with greater reliability and quality than standalone P2P technology," said Robert Levitan, chief executive officer of Pando Networks, in a prepared statement. "This expansion builds out our technology platform to provide customers with a more powerful and cost effective solution to deliver online content."

The partnership will allow Pando to deliver large files to its customers more efficiently and quickly, creating more ability to stream HD video, among other things. Level 3 will also support Pando's partnership to deliver HD video to NBC Direct. 

Within its work with the P4P working group, Pando has racked up significant kudos from AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon for improving download speeds of rich media while cutting down on bandwidth consumption.

For more:
- see the joint release here [1] 

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