Lumen - CDN Planet

Company

Lumen (formerly known as Centurlink 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.

= Yes
= Sort of/partially
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= Unknown

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

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Region	POPs	Locations
North America	28	Atlanta - Boston - Chicago - Cleveland - Dallas - Denver - Detroit - Herndon - Honolulu - Houston - Los Angeles - McLean - Miami - Minneapolis - Nashville - Newark - New York - Orlando - Philadelphia - Phoenix - Pittsburgh - Portland - Salt Lake City - San Jose - Seattle - St. Louis - Tustin Toronto
Latin America	10	Buenos Aires Curitiba - Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo - Belo Horizonte^* - Brasilia^* - Porto Alegre^* Santiago Bogotá Quito - Guayaquil^* Mexico City - Queretaro^* Panama City^* Lima Caracas^*
Europe	35	Vienna Brussels Sofia Geneva - Zurich Prague Berlin - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Munich Copenhagen Barcelona - Madrid Helsinki Marseille - Paris Birmingham - Brentford - Hayes - Leeds - London - Manchester - Slough - Woking Zagreb Budapest Dublin Reykjavik Milan - Rome Amsterdam Oslo Warsaw Bucharest Stockholm
Russia & CIS	0
Asia excl. China	7	Hong Kong Jakarta Osaka - Tokyo Seoul Manila Singapore
China	0
Oceania	5	Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney Auckland
Middle-East	4	Dubai - Fujairah Doha Tel Aviv
Africa	2	Alexandria^* Cape Town - Johannesburg

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.

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= Sort of/partially
= No
= Extra costs
= Unknown

Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.	Not yet, but coming soon.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	No longer than 15 minutes - Often instant
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	No global Anycast
HTTP/2
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend from origin only Does not compress on the edge
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS.
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?	Configure specific other Host header CDN can also forward client request Host header to origin
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin	FTP, SFTP, rsync. Storage costs apply
Cache control - CDN caching
Cache control - client caching
Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	Instant
Purge - capabilities	Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header
Analytics
Log files
API	Purge, analytics, configuration (but limited)

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

Customer support
Documentation	Yes, but not public
Humans

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