- Lumen's next-generation fiber network will support AWS
infrastructure across the U.S. amid expansion of AI-driven
services
- AWS generative AI technologies will transform and streamline
Lumen's operations, paving the way for autonomous and dynamic
networking capabilities
DENVER and SEATTLE, Oct. 30,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN)
and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced an agreement to strengthen data center
connectivity and optimize network delivery of cloud technologies
for hundreds of millions of customers across the United States. Lumen will use AWS
technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine
learning (ML), and security, to modernize its applications and
systems, and drive innovation in its portfolio of communications,
network services, security, and voice products. In addition, Lumen
will provide fiber connectivity to AWS data centers, helping
enterprise customers build and deliver highly scalable AI
applications across AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones.
Enhancing Infrastructure to Support AI Growth
Through its Private Connectivity FabricSM solution,
Lumen will provide dedicated infrastructure with private fiber
connections between AWS Regions and Local Zones. AWS will continue
to deploy its custom network technologies on this fiber, enabling
industry-leading security, availability, and performance between
AWS locations. The enhanced AWS network will enable high-bandwidth
and dynamic connections that provide customers with the ability to
develop generative AI applications, train AI models, and deliver
new AI-powered products across its Region and Local Zone footprint.
"AI is reshaping industries, and the network infrastructure
supporting it needs to be just as dynamic and responsive," said
Kate Johnson, president and CEO,
Lumen Technologies. "AWS wants their customers to thrive in the AI
economy and this network expansion will help enable that. As the
trusted network for AI, Lumen is using next-generation fiber to
help AWS deliver high-bandwidth solutions that will allow their
customers to experience and deliver AI's full potential."
"The next wave of innovation will be driven by generative AI,
which requires a combination of secure, scalable cloud
infrastructure and flexible networking," said Matt Garman, CEO of AWS. "Together, AWS and
Lumen will enable high-performance network connections that ensure
customers across every industry can build and deliver compelling,
secure, and reliable AI applications at scale."
Using AI to Modernize Network Systems for Improved Customer
Delivery
Lumen is moving its IT and product platforms to AWS to drive
performance, scalability, and operational efficiency. In the
future, Lumen can apply generative AI technology, including Amazon
Bedrock, to help better plan and optimize network resources. This
will give Lumen full visibility of their network, both onsite and
in the cloud, improving customer experience and reducing costs.
"By applying generative AI technologies like Amazon Bedrock,
Lumen can transform its operations to enable faster decision-making
and more autonomous, highly resilient networks," Garman
said.
Lumen believes it will be able to transition to a generative
AI-powered autonomous network platform that can dynamically manage
resource allocation, as well as quickly identify and address
service and network-related issues.
"Lumen is taking a page from Amazon's disruption playbook by
cloudifying telecommunications and networking. With AWS, we are
able to support our transformation and the growing needs of our
customers," said Johnson.
Lumen and AWS have been partners for years. As an AWS Managed
Service Provider Partner, Lumen helps customers migrate workloads
to AWS, ensuring a smooth transition to their cloud infrastructure.
About Lumen Technologies
Lumen is unleashing the world's digital potential. We ignite
business growth by connecting people, data, and applications –
quickly, securely, and effortlessly. As the trusted network for AI,
Lumen uses the scale of our network to help companies realize AI's
full potential. From metro connectivity to long-haul data transport
to our edge cloud, security, managed service, and digital platform
capabilities, we meet our customers' needs today and as they build
for tomorrow. For news and insights visit news.lumen.com, LinkedIn:
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About Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually
expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it
now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage,
databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security,
hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic
regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and
six more AWS Regions in Mexico,
New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign
Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government
agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to
be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer,
and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click
shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by
Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire
tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology,
Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things
pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about
and follow @AmazonNews.
Forward Looking Statements
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These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks,
uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks that the
parties' anticipated benefits from their agreement and continued
collaboration may take longer to be realized or be less substantial
than currently anticipated, that the benefits of AI, ML and other
emerging technologies may take longer to be realized or be less
substantial than currently anticipated, or that certain of the
parties' plans for future changes may be more difficult or time
consuming to implement than currently expected. Many of these
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