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DENVER, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

   -- Long-term relationship will power businesses to build, manage, and scale

     applications across highly distributed environments

Lumen Technologies (

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)(NYSE: LUMN) announced today a strategic relationship with Microsoft that will

shape the next generation of enterprise application delivery by bringing

Microsoft Azure capabilities onto the Lumen platform. Mutual customers will

benefit from being able to run their Microsoft-based solutions closer to where

digital interactions are occurring using the global Edge Computing services of

Lumen, creating one of the fastest, most secure platforms for applications and

data.

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"Working with Microsoft, Lumen will offer businesses and developers

capabilities at the edge that are unique in the industry," said Shaun Andrews,

executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Lumen. "By deeply

integrating more of our platform services with Microsoft Azure, we can help

businesses quickly utilize their data for the insights they want and need, with

the ability to support unique and customized use cases. We're excited about the

innovations and amazing new digital experiences we can enable for our mutual

customers by extending Azure to the edge of our global network."

Lumen will collaborate with Microsoft on several future go-to-market efforts to

support mutual customers worldwide, using the resources of the Lumen Edge

Experience Center, including:

  -- A certified Azure deployment which will be able to run in Lumen Edge

     Computing nodes worldwide, unlocking more low latency and high bandwidth

     use cases for customers of Azure service platform.

  -- Communication sector solutions based around Private 5G networks that would

     leverage the cloud-native software capabilities of Microsoft and the Lumen

     fiber network and Edge Computing capabilities. These solutions would allow

     customers to optimize their wireless networks and push workloads even

     closer to digital interactions.

  -- Enterprise sector managed solutions for a wide range of Microsoft software

     and cloud services to help optimize performance of business workloads and

     support a customer's entire workforce, wherever they may reside.

"By making Microsoft Azure technology available on the Lumen platform we are

giving enterprises access to an environment where they can get the low-latency

performance they need for critical applications, with the familiarity of

Microsoft services and tools," said Yousef Khalidi, corporate vice president,

Azure for Operators at Microsoft. "With this collaboration we are expanding the

ways in which businesses can connect Azure to their enterprise networks and are

excited about having Lumen as a collaboration partner to expand the number of

use cases we can achieve at the edge of the network."

Further solidifying their alliance, Lumen has selected Azure as the preferred

public cloud venue for workloads that serve its enterprise customers, helping

to improve customer experience for the Lumen platform and transforming the ways

in which new service features get added to the platform. Enterprise customers

will benefit from having consistent access management experiences across all

Lumen digital services. Lumen will also leverage Azure, Microsoft Power Apps

and Microsoft 365 E5 Security & Compliance for its internal digital

transformation.  

Additionally, Microsoft has named Lumen as one of its preferred partners

supporting Azure globally with Lumen networking, infrastructure, and managed

services. Enterprise customers will benefit from having even more

high-performing network connectivity to all their Azure services from the Lumen

platform.  

As businesses move enterprise workloads to the edge and increasingly use

multi-cloud environments, seamless integration of networking and cloud is

paramount to optimize performance.

Key Facts:

  -- Lumen is a certified Microsoft Managed Services Partner for a wide range

     of Microsoft software and cloud services and Microsoft Gold Partner.

  -- Lumen edge nodes are designed to meet 95% of U.S. enterprise demand within

     5 milliseconds of latency.

  -- For a current list of live and planned edge locations, visit:

https://www.lumen.com/en-us/solutions/edge-computing.html#edge-computing-map

  -- The Lumen network is comprised of approximately 450,000 global route miles

     of fiber and more than 180,000 on-net buildings, seamlessly connected to

     global edge nodes, 350 Lumen data centers globally, and 2,200 third-party

     data centers in North America, Europe & Middle East, Latin America, and

     Asia Pacific.

Additional Resources:

  -- For more information on Lumen Edge computing solutions visit:

     www.lumen.com/edge

  -- For more information on Azure Stack visit:

     https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/

  -- Learn more about Lumen Solutions for Microsoft Teams here:

     https://www.lumen.com/en-us/communications/ucc.html

About Lumen Technologies:

Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology

advances the way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles

and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most

secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and

communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen network,

edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose

to further human progress through technology at https://news.lumen.com/home,

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the United States.  

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical and factual information, the matters set forth in this

release identified by words such as "will," "estimates," "expects,"

"anticipates," "believes," "plans," "intends," and similar expressions are

forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees

of future results and are based on current expectations only, are inherently

speculative, and are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and

uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual events and results

may differ materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or implied

by us in those statements if one or more of these risks or uncertainties

materialize, or if underlying assumptions prove incorrect. Factors that could

affect actual results include but are not limited to: the ability of the

expanded strategic alliance to achieve its general intended ends; our ability

to safeguard our network, and to avoid the adverse impact of possible security

breaches, service outages, system failures, or similar events impacting our

network or the availability and quality of our services; the effects of new,

emerging or competing technologies, including those that could make our

products less desirable or obsolete; the ability of the expanded strategic

alliance to enable increased functionality of applications at the Edge; the

ability of the expanded strategic alliance to enable new digital experiences in

terms of customer personalization and data integration; the ability to

successfully execute the planned certified Azure deployment; the ability to

successfully implement the projected communications-sector solutions around

Private 5G and Low Earth Orbit Satellite networks; the ability to successfully

execute the projected enterprise-sector managed solutions; the ability to

deliver the desired low-latency performance needed for customer applications;

and other risks referenced from time to time in our filings with the Securities

and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). For all the reasons set forth above and in our

SEC filings, you are cautioned not to unduly rely upon our forward-looking

statements, which speak only as of the date made. We undertake no obligation to

publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason,

whether as a result of new information, future events or developments, changed

circumstances, or otherwise. Furthermore, any information about our intentions

contained in any of our forward-looking statements reflects our intentions as

of the date of such forward-looking statement, and is based upon, among other

things, existing regulatory, technological, industry, competitive, economic and

market conditions, and our assumptions as of such date. We may change our

intentions, strategies or plans (including our plans expressed herein) without

notice at any time and for any reason.

SOURCE: Lumen Technologies

CONTACT: Courtney Morton, Lumen Corporate Communications, P: 801-238-0228,

courtney.morton@lumen.com