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.
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| Product | |
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| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... |
CDN Edge Compute
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| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) |
CDN and/or CDN Edge Compute
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| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) |
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| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? |
CDN and/or CDN Mesh Delivery
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| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video |
CDN and/or CDN Mesh Delivery
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| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
part of CDN Edge Compute
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| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
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| WAFWeb Application Firewall |
WAF
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| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. |
Lumen DDoS Hyper (on-demand) and DDoS Mitigation Service
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| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs |
CDN Mesh Delivery for Enterprise
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| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
Edge Compute
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Network
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Locations marked with * are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.
| 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
Quito
Curitiba - Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo - Belo Horizonte* - Brasilia* - Porto Alegre*
Santiago
Bogotá
Mexico City - Queretaro*
Lima |
| 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 | 4 |
Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney
Auckland* |
| Middle-East | 4 |
Dubai - Fujairah
Doha
Tel Aviv |
| Africa | 2 |
Cairo*
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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| Web acceleration | |
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| Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. |
Not yet, but coming soon.
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| Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? |
No longer than 15 minutes - Often instant
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Apex/root domain OK  No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com |
No global Anycast
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| HTTP/2 |
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| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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| Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery |
Resend from origin only
Does not compress on the edge
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| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
HTTP and HTTPS.
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| 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
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| Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP |
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| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin |
FTP, SFTP, rsync. Storage costs apply
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| Cache control - CDN caching |
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| Cache control - client caching |
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| Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble |
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| Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN |
Instant
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| Purge - capabilities |
Purge all but not purge by directory or tag or header
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| Analytics |
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| Log files |
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| API |
Purge, analytics, configuration (but limited)
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| HTTPS & Content Protection | |
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| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net |
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| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate |
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| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN |
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| Token authentication |
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| Geo blocking |
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| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content |
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| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content |
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| IP white/blacklisting |
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Support
| Customer support | |
|---|---|
| Documentation |
Yes, but not public
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| Humans |
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Contact Lumen
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