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Lumen Content Delivery Network

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Shubham Chakraworty
Has a reliable user interface and a straightforward setup process
The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly. It makes the sites more reliable.
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  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."

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    What do you like most about Fastly?
    Top Answer:Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fastly?
    Top Answer:The pricing has been very competitive.
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    What needs improvement with Fastly?
    Top Answer:Stronger analytics would be helpful like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused… more »
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    Also Known As
    CenturyLink CDN, Level 3 CDN, CenturyLink DDoS Mitigation
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    Fastly
    Lumen Technologies
    Overview
    Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

    Our content delivery platform empowers you to succeed by leveraging the CenturyLink network’s scalability, global footprint and proven customer service. CenturyLink is trusted by many of the biggest names in media to deliver their content to global customers every day.

    Sample Customers
    Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Fastly is ranked 7th in CDN with 6 reviews while Lumen Content Delivery Network is ranked 15th in CDN. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Lumen Content Delivery Network is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Lumen Content Delivery Network is most compared with Akamai and Edgio Global CDN.

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