Architecture Centre

CenturyLink offers a smarter path to solving your business and technology challenges. The following Reference
Architectures provide a high-level view of how we approach our customers’ unique solutions with our comprehensive
portfolio from hybrid hosting environments, high-speed network connectivity, hands-on managed
services and specialized consulting expertise.

NETWORK          HOSTING          SECURITY          RESILIENCY & DR          DIGITAL COMMERCE          BIG DATA & IoT    


Network

Business Ethernet

Metro Ethernet is a great fit for organisations evolving from legacy technologies or that need networking for multiple locations across a metropolitan area while lowering OpEx.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

Our MPLS network is a highly scalable solution for enterprises with multiple branch offices. It's ideal for ERP, CRM and business-specific needs like policy writing or claims management.


Hosting

Managed Hosting

Set up dedicated servers, storage, network and security services using CenturyLink Managed Hosting. Options include dedicated servers, storage and switches, IDS/IPS firewall, DDoS mitigation and log management.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Multi-tenant PaaS for quickly deploying scalable, robust, high performing cloud-native apps. Supports common developer application runtimes and integrates 3rd Party Add-ons easily provisioned via the AppFog Marketplace.

Multi Cloud Connection

CenturyLink Cloud® Connection provides a secure, private, direct connection to leading cloud providers such as AWS via the CenturyLink IQ Network, our global MPLS network. 

Public Cloud + Bare Metal

Bare Metal has the power and reliability of the long-lived, dedicated server environment coupled with the flexibility, scalability and efficiency of the cloud model.


Security

Compliance: PCI DSS

CenturyLink achieves PCI compliance for your data through strict adherence to required guidelines, policies and procedures, including multiple firewalls as well as encryption and key management.

Compliance: HIPAA / HITECH

CenturyLink achieves HIPAA compliance for your data through strict adherence to required guidelines, policies and procedures. These efforts include multiple firewalls and non-ePHI VMs as well as encryption and key management.


Resiliency & DR

Disaster Recovery: Active/Active

CenturyLink Active-Active Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions offer the highest level of resiliency for mission-critical environments that require the lowest Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). CenturyLink DR solutions are customisable to business needs from a broad portfolio of network, colocation, hosting, cloud security and IT services (design, deploy, test) offerings.

Disaster Recovery from Customer Premise

Disaster Recovery solutions for customer premises or that of any third-party provider, minimise downtime and deliver cost-effective levels of resiliency for mission-critical and non-mission critical environments.

Disaster Recovery: Active/Passive

Comprehensive DR and resiliency solutions, including highly-customisable, fully-managed active-passive solutions for business processes that require average recovery times.

Disaster Recovery as a Services (DRaaS)

DRaaS changes the disaster recovery paradigm by utilising the cloud to help protect your business from disruptions at a lower total cost of ownership.


Digital Commerce

Digital Commerce

Comprehensive managed hosting services and eCommerce expertise to ensure the resiliency, uptime and integration of your end-to-end digital customer experience ecosystem, including web servers, eCommerce and WCM applications, order and fulfillment systems, network connectivity and databases.


Big Data & IoT

Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) with Managed Cloudera

Aggregate your vast amounts of data and enable analytic insights for growing your business and enhancing customer engagement. Cloudera-certified big data engineers quickly deploy your secure Cloudera Enterprise solution with comprehensive Managed Services on Intelligent Hosting or in the CenturyLink Cloud.

Fleet Management

Gather and analyse real-time driver, vehicle and central operations data for faster, more decisive action and reduced time-to-decision.

Location-Based Analytics & Marketing

Improve customer experience with deep location & visitor insight. Fully-managed solution integrating customer and location intelligence gathered from mobile devices or sensors connected via Wi-Fi endpoints.

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