MONROE, La., Oct. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink,
Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced today that fiber-ready broadband speeds
up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) are now available to 14,000
multi-tenant units (MTUs) in more than 600 cities.
With 25 percent of the world's economy expected to be digital by
2020, according to Accenture's January
2016 Digital Economic Value Index, CenturyLink is pleased to
offer its gigabit service to more than 100,000 small to large
businesses in MTUs with symmetrical upload and download speeds, as
well as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and managed IT
solutions.
"These solutions help businesses of all sizes operate more
efficiently, be more competitive and grow their business," said
Dean Douglas, CenturyLink president
of sales and marketing. "By offering fiber-ready services to MTUs
in our local markets and offering speeds up to 1 gigabit, we can
more quickly connect our business customers to the power of the
digital world and offer them affordable and scalable business
solutions previously only available to large enterprise
companies."
CenturyLink is offering fiber-enabled service in hundreds of
cities, including Phoenix,
Denver, Seattle, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Colorado
Springs, and Minneapolis/Saint
Paul. Targeted businesses have access to multiple wide-area
network connections delivered over fiber, including multiprotocol
label switching virtual private network (MPLS-VPN), metro Ethernet
and the latest software-defined wide area network (CenturyLink
SD-WAN) solution. A high-speed, high-capacity fiber-enabled
broadband connection can improve the performance of business
software applications and IT operations, especially cloud-based
functions like data storage and backup. Fiber connectivity also
delivers the highest quality business hosted voice services, even
when shared among multiple business locations.
CenturyLink business fiber service bundles contain a core set of
cloud-based business essential software applications, including
Microsoft 365, website management and hosting and data backup at no
additional charge. Business customers can visit
www.centurylink.com/fiberplus to learn more about CenturyLink's
fiber-based services, including symmetrical speeds up to 1 Gbps,
and to determine if service is available at their location.
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global
communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling
millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives
through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network
and data systems management, Big Data analytics and IT consulting,
and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The company provides broadband, voice,
video, data and managed services over a robust 250,000-route-mile
U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport
network. Visit CenturyLink for more information.
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