Global edge content delivery platform drives web
application innovation, IT agility
MONROE, Louisiana, Nov. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As web applications
become increasingly important to enabling strong digital user
experiences, CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is launching a new
content delivery network (CDN) platform that allows businesses to
create highly responsive and more secure personalized web
application experiences. CenturyLink CDN Edge Compute provides
developers with a flexible, open module architecture to design,
configure and deploy custom web application workloads at the
edge.
For more information on CenturyLink CDN Edge Compute, visit:
https://www.centurylink.com/business/networking/cdn-edge-compute.html
"Businesses across all industries are looking to quickly create
and deploy more rich web content which requires an agile IT
infrastructure that fosters rapid innovation," said Bill Wohnoutka, vice president, global internet
and content delivery services, CenturyLink. "With CDN Edge Compute,
businesses can use a global edge delivery footprint that allows for
new web content and capabilities to be pushed to users quickly and
easily, and that can scale to support mass audiences and high
traffic events."
CenturyLink CDN Edge Compute gives developers the flexibility to
choose software that best suits their innovation needs, creating a
completely customized edge environment. Web application firewalls
(WAFs), bot management and application performance modules run
within milliseconds of the end-user, removing bandwidth constraints
between end and origin servers. CenturyLink CDN Edge Compute
provides tools to empower innovation by allowing developers to move
changes into production quickly while minimizing risk.
CenturyLink CDN Edge Compute is powered by technology from
Section. "Providing engineers with access to and control of
workloads at the edge helps power a better internet by reducing
latency and data backhaul, and maintaining a strong security
perimeter," said Stewart McGrath,
CEO, Section. "We are excited to work with CenturyLink to unlock
the wealth of compute power available within massive scale
networks."
CenturyLink CDN Edge Compute includes the following
benefits:
- Improved Application Performance: Highly configurable
dynamic and static content acceleration, including HTML streaming,
virtual waiting room and image optimization.
- Flexible Security: Choose from industry leading and top
open source security solutions for WAF, bot management and DDoS
mitigation.
- Dev/Ops Native Environment: CDN configuration, testing
and deployment are enabled for use within native Dev/Ops workflow,
simplifying the release process and deployment cycles.
- Custom Workloads: Supports execution of customer
applications running directly on the edge platform.
- Near Real-Time Analytics: Robust data pipeline for key
performance metrics and logs in a searchable interface for
troubleshooting and tuning of edge modules.
- Growing Global Network: More than 60 points of presence
in over 40 locations, with the ability to virtualize the footprint
into edge compute locations in both public and private IP
networks.
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a
technology leader delivering hybrid networking, cloud connectivity,
and security solutions to customers around the world. Through its
extensive global fiber network, CenturyLink provides secure and
reliable services to meet the growing digital demands of businesses
and consumers. CenturyLink strives to be the trusted connection to
the networked world and is focused on delivering technology that
enhances the customer experience. Learn more
at https://news.centurylink.com/.
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