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CenturyLink 4.3 / 5

DETAILS
basic plan
$29/mo arrow-image 50%
plus plan
$99/mo arrow-image 50%
pro plan
$499/mo arrow-image 50%

RESPONSE TIME

21ms arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Response Time
Last 24 Hours: 26/03/2023
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

AVAILABILITY

99.62% arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Availability
Last 24 Hours: 26/03/2023
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

THROUGHPUT

19,412Mbps arrow image 1%
RUM by cedexis.com

Type: Throughput
Last 24 Hours: 26/03/2023
Geography: North America
Based on: 50th Percentile

points of presence

100
Point of Presence

Total number of CDN Provider Point of Presence. CDN providers might have multiple POPs / Nodes per edge location.
  • SSl . Yes
  • HTTP/2 . Yes
  • COMPRESSION . Yes
  • IPV6 . Yes
  • ORIGIN SHIELD . Yes
  • PCI COMPLIANT . Yes
9 0 5 5 3 42 9 30
  • Supported
  • Additional Cost

provider’s focus

  • Supported
  • Additional Cost
  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4
  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4

pros

rating 5

  • Global, well connected, privately owned fibre network
  • ≈ 50Tbps of egress capacity

rating 4

  • Mature, scalable and established with truly global footprint
  • Great performance in Middle East, Africa, Latin America and China
  • Fast responding engineering support / NOC
  • Offer CDN, DNS and Security solutions

Cons

  • Very basic self provisioning online admin
  • 85% self provisioning online admin (Some service implementation or configuration require support intervention)

performance

Data by Cedexis. 26 March 2023
Response Time, ms
  • 21 North America 26
  • 24 Oceania 17
  • 16 Europe 18
  • 71 Asia 19
  • 189 Africa 86
  • 35 South America 33
Response Time, ms
  • North America 21
  • Oceania 24
  • Europe 16
  • Asia 71
  • Africa 189
  • South America 35
Response Time, ms
  • North America 26
  • Oceania 17
  • Europe 18
  • Asia 19
  • Africa 86
  • South America 33
Availability, %
  • 99.62 North America 72.80
  • 99.66 Oceania 99.53
  • 99.51 Europe 99.44
  • 99.36 Asia 86.81
  • 98.76 Africa 98.81
  • 99.65 South America 99.53
Availability, %
  • North America 99.62
  • Oceania 99.66
  • Europe 99.51
  • Asia 99.36
  • Africa 98.76
  • South America 99.65
Availability, %
  • North America 72.80
  • Oceania 99.53
  • Europe 99.44
  • Asia 86.81
  • Africa 98.81
  • South America 99.53
Throughput, Mbps
  • 19,412.00 North America 11,268.00
  • 8,177.00 Oceania 5,809.00
  • 19,102.00 Europe 14,485.00
  • 32,854.00 Asia 39,734.00
  • 1,860.00 Africa 1,834.00
  • 27,322.00 South America 20,000.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 19,412.00
  • Oceania 8,177.00
  • Europe 19,102.00
  • Asia 32,854.00
  • Africa 1,860.00
  • South America 27,322.00
Throughput, Mbps
  • North America 11,268.00
  • Oceania 5,809.00
  • Europe 14,485.00
  • Asia 39,734.00
  • Africa 1,834.00
  • South America 20,000.00

edge locations

Last updated April, 2019

Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fargo, Golden, Herndon, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, Newark, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Sioux Falls, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Tustin

Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin, Birmingham, Brentford, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hayes, Helsinki, Irlam, Leeds, London, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Milton Keynes, Munich, Omsk, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Slough, Sofia, Stockholm, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw, Woking, Zurich

Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg

Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santiago

Cape Town, Djibouti, Johannesburg, Mombasa, Reunion Island

Baku, Doha, Dubai, Fujairah, Jeddah, Muscat

Brisbane, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo

Ashburn(2), Atlanta (GA / 2), Chicago (IL / 2), Dallas (TX / 2), Los Angeles (CA / 2), Miami (FL / 2), New York (NY / 2), San José (CA / 2), Seattle (WA), Toronto (ON / Canada), Washington (DC)

Amsterdam (The Nederlands), Ankara (Turkey), Brussels (Belgium), Bucharest (Romania), Dublin (Ireland), Frankfurt (Germany / 3), Istanbul (Turkey), Lisbon (Portugal), London (United Kingdom / 2), Madrid (Spain), Milan (Italy), Palermo (Itlay), Paris (France / 3), Stockholm (Sweden), Warsaw (Poland)

Chelyabinsk, Chita, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Petropavlovsk, Pskov, Rostov, Samara, Tomsk, Veliki Novgorod, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg

Beijing, Changde, Chongquing, Dongguan, Ezhou, Foshan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Jinan, Leshan, Shanghai, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Tangshan, Tianjin, Xian, Zhangjiagang, Zhengzhou

Buenos Aires (2), Lima, Medellin, Mexico City (Mexico), Rio de Janeiro (2), Santiago, Sao Paulo (2)

Cape Town, Dar es salaam, Jeddah, Johannesburg (2)

Ankara, Baghdad (2), Cairo, Doha, Dubai (3), Istambul, Kuwait, Muscat, Tel Aviv, Ulaanbaatar

Bangkok(5), Chennai (2), Hanoi, Hanoi, Hochimin(2), Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, KualaLumpur(2), Manila,(2), Mumbai (2), Osaka, Seoul(5), Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo(2)

supported services

  • Web 22
  • Streaming 21
  • Reseller 1
  • Private 9
  • Federation 3
  • Security 11
  • Telco 3
  • Hosting 4
  • Not Supported
  • Unknown
  • Supported
  • Additional Cost
  • Cacheable Content Acceleration Commonly referred as CDN, is the core service that brings cacheable content closer to the end-users either geographically or logically by caching content on CDN pops or edges so that is scalable, available and fast to deliver.
  • Non-Cacheable Content Acceleration CDN provider creates a persistent connection between customer origin and the closest CDN edge location to eliminate the tcp 3 way handshake and tcp slow start. then applies a series of tcp optimisations (multIPlexing, etc) between CDN edge locations to deliver non-cacheable content as fast and efficiently as possible to the end-users.
  • Shared CDN Domain SSL CDN provider generates a hostname that is used by customer to HTTPs. domain and SSL certificate belongs to CDN provider.
  • Shared IP SSL Hosting Commonly called SNI, your SSL certificate is hosted in each CDN pop/edge location on a shared IP among other certificates. SNI SSL it’s not supported by some older browsers like IE6 and it’s not as secure as dedicated IP.
  • Dedicated IP SSL Hosting your SSL certificate is hosted in each CDN pop/edge location on a dedicated IP and dedicated resources.
  • RTMP to RTMP Streaming customer origin publishes RTMP format and CDN provider delivers in RTMP format.
  • RTMP to HTTP Streaming customer origin publishes RTMP format and CDN provider transcode to HTTP and delivers in HTTP format.
  • HTTP to HTTP Streaming customer origin publishes HTTP format and CDN provider delivers in HTTP format .