DENVER, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen
Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) has expanded its Edge Computing
Solutions infrastructure and is giving businesses even more options
to work at the Edge to gain a competitive advantage. Customers can
now procure Lumen Edge Bare Metal services online, and within an
hour gain access to high-powered computing infrastructure on the
Lumen platform. Today with Lumen Edge Bare Metal, Lumen can cover
roughly 60% of U.S. enterprise locations within 5 milliseconds of
latency, with 95% coverage planned by end of year. Additionally,
customers can use Lumen Network Storage to take advantage of
secure, scalable, and fast storage where and when they need it.
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To learn more about Lumen Edge Bare Metal visit:
https://www.lumen.com/en-us/edge-computing/bare-metal.html
According to a recent global survey conducted by analyst firm
IDC and sponsored by Lumen, business leaders measure the success of
Edge storage solutions across five key areas - customer
satisfaction, product performance, compliance, cost and agility.
Lumen Network Storage can help customers achieve improvements
across all these key areas.
To view the IDC InfoBrief, "Edge Computing Solutions Powering
the Fourth Industrial Revolution," Doc. #US47222020, January 2021, visit:
https://pages.lumentech.com/IDC-Research-for-Edge-Report-LP.html
Lumen Network Storage delivers Edge storage services as close to
customer workloads as possible, making storing and transporting
data to multiple locations, IT teams, and across multi-cloud
environments easy, fast, and efficient.
"There is an explosion of data at the Edge coming from IoT
devices and enterprises need the ability to store and process data
closer to end users in order to drive amazing digital experiences,"
said Chris McReynolds, vice
president, edge cloud product management, Lumen Technologies.
"Lumen Network Storage along with Lumen Edge Bare Metal and our
deep network reach gives customers the flexibility to process and
store data in an ultra-low latency environment, delivering improved
performance and reliability."
With Lumen Edge Bare Metal, enterprises can benefit
from:
- Superior application performance from running on edge nodes
designed for 5 millisecond round-trip latency over the Lumen fiber
network.
- Improved control and performance with the ability to run
applications and workloads on a unified platform. Customers can
focus efforts on developing applications and bringing them to
market rather than on time-consuming infrastructure
deployment.
- Enhanced security and connectivity with dedicated, single
tenancy servers designed to isolate and protect data and deliver
high-performance networking across the company's extensive and
deeply peered global backbone.
- Cost savings with the ability to turn bare metal servers on and
off as needed with pay-as-you-go flexibility.
Lumen Network Storage offers the following
benefits:
- Allows enterprises and public sector organizations to ingest
and update data at the edge in whatever file storage protocol meets
their needs.
- Allows customers to quickly add additional storage, where they
need it, as well as sync and replicate data without additional
infrastructure.
- Delivers costs savings from eliminating outgoing data charges
and infrastructure maintenance costs, as well as pay-as-you-go
pricing model.
- Also available as dedicated Network Storage nodes connected to
the Lumen network.
Key Facts:
- Lumen Edge Computing Solutions are designed to meet 95% of the
U.S. enterprise demand within 5 milliseconds of latency, as well as
in many other connected locations across the globe.
- For a current list of live and planned edge locations, visit:
https://www.lumen.com/en-us/solutions/edge-computing.html#edge-computing-map
- The Lumen low latency network is comprised of approximately
450,000 global route miles of fiber and more than 180,000 on-net
buildings, seamlessly connected to:
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- 2,200 public and private third-party data centers in
North America, Europe & Middle
East, Latin America, and
Asia Pacific
- Leading public cloud service providers including Amazon Web
Services, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute & Azure Government,
Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud
Additional Resources:
- For more information on Lumen Network Storage visit:
https://www.lumen.com/en-us/hybrid-it-cloud/cloud-storage.html
- For more information on Lumen Edge Computing Solutions visit:
https://www.lumen.com/en-us/solutions/edge-computing.html
About Lumen Technologies:
Lumen is guided by our
belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the
way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles
and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the
fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help
businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences.
Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security,
communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to
further human progress through technology
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Technologies are registered trademarks of Lumen Technologies LLC
in the United States. Lumen
Technologies LLC is a wholly owned affiliate of CenturyLink
Inc.
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