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Level 3 Communications will provide big-pipe connectivity to help the video portal YouTube keep up with its rapid growth, the two companies said today. Under the terms of the agreement, Level 3 will speed YouTube’s video delivery with high speed Internet access through multiple 10 gigabits per second (10GigE) ports across a nationwide fiber network connecting YouTube’s data centers.

“We selected Level 3 because we needed a carrier with a highly advanced, stable, scalable network and a service portfolio that would enable us to manage the magnitude of growth that we continue to experience with more than 100 million videos being watched per day on our site,”

said Steve Chen, chief technology officer and co-founder at YouTube.

YouTube has been one of the Web’s breakout hits, hitting the spotlight late last year with the popularity of the “Lazy Sunday” video from Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell (which was later “reclaimed” by NBC and moved to its site). YouTube’s subsequent popularity has led to substantial bandwidth requirements, estimated by some reports to cost up to $1 million a month. Via datacenterknowledge

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