Lumen Expands Bare Metal Capabilities and Adds Network Storage to Edge Solutions

Lumen Technologies LLC has expanded its Edge Computing Solutions infrastructure and is giving businesses more options to work at the edge to gain a competitive advantage.

Customers can procure the firm’s Edge Bare Metal services online, and within an hour gain access to high-powered computing infrastructure on the company’s platform. TWith Edge Bare Metal, the company can cover roughly 60% of US 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.

According to a recent global survey conducted by IDC and sponsored by the company, business leaders measure the success of edge storage solutions across 5 key areas – customer satisfaction, product performance, compliance, cost and agility. The firm’s Network Storage can help customers achieve improvements across these areas.

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The company’s 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 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, VP, edge cloud product management. “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 Edge Bare Metal, enterprises can benefit from:

• Superior application performance from running on edge nodes designed for 5ms 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.

Company’s Network Storage offers 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 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:

• Company’s Computing Solutions are designed to meet 95% of the U.S. enterprise demand within 5mss of latency, as well as in many other connected locations across the globe.

• Current list of live and planned edge locations

• Lumen low latency network is comprised of approximately 450,000 global route miles of fiber and more than 180,000 on-net buildings connected to:

  • • • 2,200 public and private third-party data centers in North America, Europe & Middle East, Latin America, and Asia Pacific

      • Public cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and Azure Government, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud

Resources:
IDC InfoBrief: Edge Computing Solutions Powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Doc. #US47222020, January 2021 (registration required)
Lumen Network Storage
Lumen Edge Computing solutions
Lumen Edge Bare Metal
Interactive Multichannel release

About Lumen Technologies:
With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, the firm deliver secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Lumen Technologies LLC is a wholly-owned affiliate of CenturyLink Inc.