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Lumen® IP VPN

Connect your locations globally to a flexible network with the capacity and
self-service features to respond fast

Network availability

Network availability

Network security

Network security

Dynamic Connections

Dynamic Connections

Network visibility
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Network visibility & control

Dynamic Capacity®

Dynamic Capacity

App-centric network

App-centric network
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Dynamic Capacity®

Instantly scale to meet changing data demand

Businesses need flexible bandwidth to support fluctuating network traffic, while maintaining control over their spend. Our Lumen® IP VPN platform provides customer controlled on-demand, scheduled, and automated scaling of bandwidth up to 3x your subscribed capacity for a predicable price. You monitor and control your network capacity and spend using our centralized self-service portal experience.

  • Scale on-demand, automatically, scheduled
  • No interruption in service during change
  • No lead-time for installation
  • Flexible pay-as-you-go
  • Additional charges for utilized period and time
  • Full 10Gbps bandwidth standard (30Gbps w/100Gbps port through specials)
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Boost performance

Deliver mission-critical apps from the cloud with exceptional uptime and responsiveness. SDN-based functions provide greater visibility, flexibility, and management of traffic traversing your Ethernet Virtual Circuit (EVC).

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Stay secure

Experience the benefits of the cloud with the proven security of a private network ecosystem. Get secure, high-performance connections to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle and more.

Improve flexiblity and efficiency
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Improve flexiblity and efficiency

Self-service portal real-time, scheduled or automated 2x or 3x EVC bandwidth adjustments to address fluctuating traffic demands and pay-as-you-go. Add or remove Ethernet services via a portal or API integration.

Dynamic Connections
IP VPN

Set up new cloud connections in minutes

With Lumen® Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections IP VPN you may create or delete connections to Cloud Providers, in real time, using our self-service portal. Sync your entire WAN, including HQ, branches and data centers, to the Cloud in minutes.

Our built-in network security covers your private WAN reliably, whenever you need to meet shifting application demands.

Establish connections in real time using our simple, self-service portal with true pay-as-you-go hourly or monthly pricing – for ultimate efficiency and control.

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Performance analytics

Visibility into application performance metrics backed by SLAs including latency, jitter, packet delivery, and bandwidth utilization.

Near real-time visibility
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Near real-time visibility

Views are updated hourly. Six month and twelve-month historical views are available.

Proactive alerts
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Proactive alerts

Email alerts are provided around performance thresholds for Class of Service, and network utilization.

Self-service capabilities
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Self-service capabilities

Dynamic Capacity of bandwidth is centrally management and can be automatically triggered to maintain application availability. Lumen® Dynamic Connections is also available via our self-service Digital Buying Experience

Network visibility & control

Lumen® IP VPN provides Enhanced Management to deliver instant visibility and self-service control.

  • Performance analytics: Visibility into application performance metrics backed by SLAs including latency, jitter, packet delivery, and bandwidth utilization
  • Near real-time visibility: Views are updated hourly. Six month and twelve-month historical views are available
  • Proactive alerts: Email alerts are provided around performance thresholds for Class of Service, and network utilization
  • Self-service capabilities: Dynamic Capacity of bandwidth is centrally managed and can be automatically triggered to maintain application availability. Lumen® Dynamic Connections is also available via our self-service Digital Buying Experience
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Network availability

Keep data moving across the globe

Data is constantly on the move; from data centers, cloud environments and the applications that collect it, to customers, employees and the devices that rely on it. Lumen® IP VPN keeps data moving with intuitive self-service control and automated features.

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Network diversity

End-to-end diversity options

Businesses require always-on availability to maintain the uninterrupted flow of data from multiple data center environments and the network security to protect sensitive information. Lumen® IP VPN supports multiple diversity options to maintain the network availability that you demand and the privacy that you require. We cover every point of transport, including access, Point of Presence (PoP), Provider Edge (PE), PE card and Customer Edge (CE) equipment.

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  • Intelligent routing
  • Application based routing
  • Automatic fail-over
  • App categorization
Intelligent routing
Application based routing
Automatic fail-over
App categorization

App-centric network

Real-time application performance

Applications require a dynamic network to support variable access, performance, and security requirements. In addition to network capacity, public and private connections need to deliver the flexibility to reach widely distributed employees and customers with the services they need. Lumen® IP VPN delivers network agility.

  • Customer controlled segmentation of multiple private networks with virtual routing and forwarding tables
  • Classify your applications to prioritize available bandwidth, ensuring that real-time applications run smoothly and seamlessly
  • Burst to your full port speed and maintain real-time application performance
  • Increase your bandwidth when you need it most with pay-per-use billing
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Network security

It is challenging to manage traffic across a hybrid network with variable performance and security requirements. Lumen® IP VPN supports multiple private networks, so you may segregate your workloads by application, user group and location. Built-in DDoS mitigation offers added protection.

The Lumen IP backbone is reinforced with built-in intelligent and automated threat detection and response to safeguard data and applications. Thanks to our extensive network assets, our visibility into the threat landscape is vast, enabling high-fidelity threat intelligence and automated response.

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