CenturyLink Network Storage: Handling Data Where It’s Created and Consumed

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With more than 100 edge locations, CenturyLink’s highly dynamic network can deliver latency under 5 milliseconds, real-time provisioning, as well as a bridge through cloud connected dynamic connections to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google public clouds.

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