Company
Lumen (formerly known as Centurylink or Level 3) owns and operates a global Tier-1 network and - logically - their CDN runs on top of it. Lumen CDN has POPs on many continents and their product focus is on video, large object delivery and edge computing.
Lumen website
Products
View the table below for more insight into Lumen products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
Product | ||
---|---|---|
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | CDN Edge Compute | |
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | CDN and/or CDN Edge Compute | |
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | ||
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | CDN and/or CDN Mesh Delivery | |
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | CDN and/or CDN Mesh Delivery | |
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | part of CDN Edge Compute | |
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | ||
WAFWeb Application Firewall | WAF | |
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | Lumen DDoS Hyper (on-demand) and DDoS Mitigation Service | |
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | CDN Mesh Delivery for Enterprise | |
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers | Edge Compute |
Network
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country
* = planned POPs
** = multiple POPs
Pricing
Lumen provides custom pricing packages based on specific customer needs. You can receive a tailor made quote by contacting their sales team.
Contact Lumen Sales
Pricing & contract duration | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum contract term | Unknown | |
Minimum monthly costs | Unknown | |
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | Unknown | |
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | Unknown | |
NA/EU traffic (low volume) | Unknown | |
APAC traffic (low volume) | Unknown | |
LATAM traffic (low volume) | Unknown |
Features
View the tables below for more insight into the features Lumen supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
HTTPS & Content Protection | ||
---|---|---|
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | ||
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | ||
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | ||
Token authentication | ||
Geo blocking | ||
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | ||
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | ||
IP white/blacklisting |
Support
Documentation | Yes, but not public | |
Human support | ||
Status Page |
Contact Lumen
Compare Lumen to another CDN
- Lumen versus AdvancedHosting
- Lumen versus Akamai
- Lumen versus BelugaCDN
- Lumen versus bunny.net
- Lumen versus CacheFly
- Lumen versus CDN77
- Lumen versus CDNetworks
- Lumen versus CDNvideo
- Lumen versus ChinaCache
- Lumen versus Cloudflare
- Lumen versus CloudFront
- Lumen versus EdgeNext
- Lumen versus Edgio
- Lumen versus Fastly
- Lumen versus Gcore
- Lumen versus Imperva
- Lumen versus Kingsoft Cloud
- Lumen versus Leaseweb
- Lumen versus Medianova
- Lumen versus StackPath
- Lumen versus Tata Communications
- Lumen versus Tencent Cloud