From the cloud to the edge, Lumen Technologies is reshaping enterprise application delivery with Microsoft
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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 (
)(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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/lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks in
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
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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
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