Long-term relationship will power businesses to build, manage,
and scale applications across highly distributed environments
DENVER, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
"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
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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
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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.
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