Building the network foundation for the AI era

AI is changing how organizations connect applications, data, and users across increasingly complex environments. As workloads become more distributed and cloud strategies continue to evolve, the network plays a large role in how quickly organizations can move, scale, and adapt.

At Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™, Lumen will share how a programmable, AI-ready network can help organizations improve visibility, gain more control, and simplify connectivity across clouds, data centers and edge environments. Visit us throughout the event to connect with Lumen experts, attend sessions, and discuss how enterprise infrastructure is evolving for the AI era.

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ is a good time to step back from day-to-day priorities and talk through what your organization needs next. Meet with Lumen at Booth 823 to explore practical approaches to AI-ready networking, multi-cloud connectivity, Network-as-a-Service, programmable infrastructure, cyber resilience, and digital transformation. 

Whether you are evaluating new AI initiatives, modernizing existing architecture, or looking for more control across distributed environments, our team can tailor the conversation around your priorities.

Shifting Defense Earlier: Practical Lessons in Network Intelligence​

AI Won’t Be Limited by Models. It Will Be Limited by Networks That Can’t Adapt​

Beyond Connectivity: Building Connected Ecosystems for Secure Hybrid AI​

Lumen NaaS puts network control in your hands. Provision, scale and turn up connectivity on demand through one digital portal - no new contracts, no truck rolls, no waiting weeks for bandwidth. Buy by the hour, day or month and adjust capacity as AI, cloud and data workloads shift. NaaS spans dedicated internet, ethernet, and direct cloud on-ramps across one of the world's most deeply peered fiber backbones, with network-level security and real-time visibility built in. For leaders modernizing infrastructure, it replaces static multi-year circuits with programmable, consumption-based networking.​

Lumen Wavelength Services​

Lumen Wavelength Services deliver dedicated 100G and 400G connectivity with the scale, speed and route diversity required for AI, cloud and data-intensive applications. Across Lumen’s extensive North American fiber network, customers gain greater choice in how connections are designed, including multiple diverse path options in key markets and rapid deployment across thousands of qualified connections. The result is high-capacity connectivity designed around the customer’s architecture, not the provider’s constraints.​

Lumen + Alkira: Multicloud Networking on Demand

Lumen and Alkira consolidate enterprise connectivity into a single control layer. Stand up secure, cloud-native network infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and on-premises sites in minutes instead of months - no hardware to deploy and no per-cloud networking teams to coordinate. Unified policy, segmentation and integrated security services apply consistently everywhere, with full visibility into traffic, cost and performance from one place. Paired with Lumen's global fiber and NaaS, it gives IT and network leaders one network, every cloud, total control - globally.​

In the AI era, the network decides the economics. Legacy network architectures were not designed for today’s AI workloads, which can place new pressure on capacity, provisioning and control. Lumen’s programmable network approach is designed to help organizations align connectivity with changing demand.

One programmable fabric can help turn multi-cloud sprawl into an AI advantage. With Lumen and Alkira, organizations can explore ways to consolidate connectivity, improve visibility and simplify control across cloud environments.