• Lumen’s Personal Connectivity Cloth℠ expands Microsoft’s community capability and functionality to help 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 — Right this moment, Lumen Applied sciences (NYSE: LUMN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) introduced a partnership that can 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 satisfy the rising demand on its datacenters because of AI.
A community for the AI period
Datacenters have develop into important infrastructure that energy the compute capabilities for the tens of millions of individuals and organizations who depend on and belief the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft is taking part in a number one position 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 help its subsequent era of purposes for Microsoft platform prospects worldwide.
Lumen’s Personal Connectivity Cloth℠ 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 companies. 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 improve.
“AI is reshaping our every day lives and essentially altering how companies function,” stated Erin Chapple, company vp of Azure Core Product and Design, Microsoft. “We’re centered each on the impression and alternative for purchasers relative to AI in the present day, and a era forward in terms of our community infrastructure. Lumen has the community infrastructure and the digital capabilities wanted to assist help 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 in the present day and for the long run to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to attain extra.”
“We’re making ready for a future the place AI is the driving power of innovation and development, and the place a strong community infrastructure is crucial 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 offer firms the flexibleness, entry and safety they should create an AI-enabled world.”
Accelerating development by 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 cut 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 id assaults and companion with Microsoft to create and ship new telecom industry-specific options. This aspect alone is anticipated to enhance Lumen’s money circulation by greater than $20 million over the subsequent 12 months whereas additionally enhancing the corporate’s buyer expertise.
“Azure’s superior world infrastructure helps prospects and companions rapidly adapt to altering financial circumstances, speed up expertise innovation, and remodel their enterprise with AI,” stated Chapple. “We’re dedicated to partnering with Lumen to assist ship on their transformation objectives, reimagine cloud connectivity and AI synergies, drive enterprise development, 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 cut back worker workloads and improve Microsoft Groups.
About Lumen Applied sciences
Lumen connects the world. We’re igniting enterprise development by connecting individuals, information, and purposes – rapidly, securely, and effortlessly. All the things 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 in the present day 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 progressive options that meet the evolving wants of our prospects. The expertise firm is dedicated to creating AI out there 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]
