Lumen to acquire Alkira

"Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LUMN) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Alkira, a cloud-native, carrier-agnostic networking platform that enables enterprises to design, deploy, and operate connectivity and network services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The proposed transaction pairs Alkira's cloud-native control plane - the software layer that programs and orchestrates connectivity - with Lumen's fiber network, advancing Lumen's digital platform strategy to deliver cloud-like consumption for global enterprise networking."

""For decades, networking ran in the background. Today, it's the central nervous system, determining how fast you can move, how much you spend, and whether your AI investments produce value," said Kate Johnson, CEO of Lumen Technologies. "With Alkira, Lumen will pair the trusted network for AI with a cloud-native control plane, which will give customers a programmable network designed for the AI era. It's what the market needs, and it's what we're building at Lumen.""

"The Programmable Network Imperative AI is reshaping how enterprises operate and how their networks must perform. More than half of internet traffic today is automated traffic generated by software systems rather than human users. Networks have to be big enough, fast enough, intelligent enough, and secure enough to keep up. Yet many enterprise networks remain static, manually configured, and fragmented across providers."

"Lumen is working to define a new category of enterprise networking: one built on world-class physical infrastructure, a programmable network, and a connected ecosystem of clouds, applications, and partners. Alkira will accelerate Lumen's vision of a programmable network with a single control plane that orchestrates connectivity beyond Lumen's network across data centers, multiple clouds, partner ecosystems, and on-p"

Lumen Technologies entered an agreement to acquire Alkira, a cloud-native, carrier-agnostic networking platform for designing, deploying, and operating connectivity and network services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The acquisition pairs Alkira’s cloud-native control plane, which programs and orchestrates connectivity, with Lumen’s fiber network. This supports Lumen’s digital platform strategy to deliver cloud-like consumption for global enterprise networking. Networking is positioned as central to performance, cost, and AI value. Automated internet traffic is growing, while many enterprise networks remain static, manually configured, and fragmented across providers. Lumen aims to define enterprise networking built on physical infrastructure, a programmable network, and a connected ecosystem of clouds, applications, and partners.

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