Easily compare CacheFly and Lumen for POP locations, products, pricing, features & support. We hope this helps you better understand the similarities and differences between these content delivery networks.
Company
Company | CacheFly | Lumen |
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Short profile | Launched in 2002, CacheFly developed the world's first TCP-anycast based content delivery network. CacheFly has a focus on optimizing the CDN for throughput and has steadily built out the network to now have 50+ POPs on 6 continents. CacheFly provides a 100% uptime SLA and takes pride in acting as 'consultants to our customers'. | 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. |
Products
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Product | CacheFly | Lumen |
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Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... |
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Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) |
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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? |
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Video on demandDelivery of on demand video |
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Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization |
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DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain |
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WAFWeb Application Firewall |
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Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. |
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Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs |
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Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers |
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Network
Region | CacheFly | Lumen |
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North America | 17 | 32 |
Latin America | 9 | 11 |
Europe | 14 | 36 |
Russia & CIS | 2 | 0 |
Asia excl. China | 7 | 6 |
China | 2 | 0 |
Oceania | 3 | 1 |
Middle-East | 5 | 4 |
Africa | 1 | 2 |
Pricing
Pricing & contract duration | CacheFly | Lumen |
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Minimum contract term | 1 month | Unknown |
Minimum monthly costs | $595 (35 TB/m) | Unknown |
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | No | Unknown |
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | Yes | Unknown |
NA/EU traffic (low volume) | n/a | Unknown |
APAC traffic (low volume) | n/a | Unknown |
LATAM traffic (low volume) | n/a | Unknown |
Features
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Web acceleration | CacheFly | Lumen |
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Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. |
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Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? |
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Apex/root domain OK |
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HTTP/2 |
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IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? |
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Compression |
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Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? |
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Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? |
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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 |
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Cache control - CDN caching |
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Cache control - client caching |
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Serve Stale |
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Purge |
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Purge - capabilities |
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Analytics |
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Log files |
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API |
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HTTPS & Content Protection | CacheFly | Lumen |
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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 | CacheFly | Lumen |
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Documentation |
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Humans |
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