• Lumen’s Non-public Connectivity Material℠ expands Microsoft’s community capability and functionality to assist rising demand on datacenters.
• Microsoft Azure to additional speed up Lumen’s enterprise-wide digital transformation and drive AI initiatives throughout the group.
DENVER and REDMOND, Wash. — JULY 24, 2024 — At this time, Lumen Applied sciences (NYSE: LUMN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) introduced a partnership that may use the Microsoft Cloud to additional drive Lumen’s digital transformation. As well as, Microsoft has chosen Lumen to develop its community capability and functionality to fulfill the rising demand on its datacenters attributable to AI.
A community for the AI period
Datacenters have turn out to be vital infrastructure that energy the compute capabilities for the thousands and thousands of individuals and organizations who depend on and belief the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft is enjoying a number one function in ushering within the period of AI, providing instruments and platforms like Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Copilot and others, to assist individuals be extra artistic, extra productive and to assist clear up a few of humanity’s largest challenges. As Microsoft continues to evolve and scale its ecosystem, it’s turning to Lumen as a strategic provider for its community infrastructure wants and is investing with Lumen to assist its subsequent era of purposes for Microsoft platform prospects worldwide.
Lumen’s Non-public Connectivity Material℠ is a customized community that features devoted entry to current fiber within the Lumen community, the set up of recent fiber on current and new routes, and using Lumen’s new digital providers. This AI-ready infrastructure will strengthen the connectivity capabilities between Microsoft’s datacenters by offering the community capability, efficiency, stability and velocity that prospects want as information calls for enhance.
“AI is reshaping our every day lives and essentially altering how companies function,” stated Erin Chapple, company vice chairman of Azure Core Product and Design, Microsoft. “We’re targeted each on the affect and alternative for patrons relative to AI right now, and a era forward with regards to our community infrastructure. Lumen has the community infrastructure and the digital capabilities wanted to assist assist Azure’s mission in creating dependable and scalable platform that helps the breadth of buyer workloads—from basic objective and mission-critical, to cloud-native, high-performance computing, and AI, plus what’s on the horizon. Our work with Lumen is emblematic of our investments in our personal cloud infrastructure, which delivers for right now and for the long run to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to attain extra.”
“We’re getting ready for a future the place AI is the driving power of innovation and progress, and the place a robust community infrastructure is important for firms to thrive,” stated Kate Johnson, president and CEO, Lumen Applied sciences. “Microsoft has an formidable imaginative and prescient for AI and this stage of innovation requires a community that may make it actuality. Lumen’s expansive community meets this problem, with distinctive routes, unmatched protection, and a digital platform constructed to provide firms the pliability, entry and safety they should create an AI-enabled world.”
Accelerating progress by means of innovation and partnership
Lumen has launched an enterprise-wide transformation to simplify and optimize its operations. By embracing Microsoft’s cloud and AI expertise, Lumen can scale back its general expertise prices, take away legacy techniques and silos, enhance its choices, and create new options for its world buyer base. Lumen will migrate and modernize its workloads to Microsoft Azure, use Microsoft Entra options to safeguard entry and forestall identification assaults and companion with Microsoft to create and ship new telecom industry-specific options. This factor alone is predicted to enhance Lumen’s money circulate by greater than $20 million over the following 12 months whereas additionally enhancing the corporate’s buyer expertise.
“Azure’s superior world infrastructure helps prospects and companions shortly adapt to altering financial circumstances, speed up expertise innovation, and rework their enterprise with AI,” stated Chapple. “We’re dedicated to partnering with Lumen to assist ship on their transformation targets, reimagine cloud connectivity and AI synergies, drive enterprise progress, and assist prospects obtain extra.”
This collaboration expands upon the longstanding relationship between Lumen Applied sciences and Microsoft. The businesses have labored collectively for a number of years, with Lumen leveraging Copilot to automate routine duties and scale back worker workloads and improve Microsoft Groups.
About Lumen Applied sciences
Lumen connects the world. We’re igniting enterprise progress by connecting individuals, information, and purposes – shortly, securely, and effortlessly. All the pieces we do at Lumen takes benefit of our community power. From metro connectivity to long-haul information transport to our edge cloud, safety, and managed service capabilities, we meet our prospects’ wants right now and as they construct for tomorrow. For information and insights go to information.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Fb: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) creates platforms and instruments powered by AI to ship modern options that meet the evolving wants of our prospects. The expertise firm is dedicated to creating AI accessible broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to attain extra.
Media Contacts
Stephanie Meisse, Lumen Applied sciences, (419) 610-3142, [email protected]
Microsoft Media Relations, WE Communications for Microsoft, (425) 638-7777, [email protected]