Lumen Expands Partnership with Microsoft to Jointly Sell AI-Ready Networking to Enterprises

On November 2, Lumen Technologies and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership under which the two companies will jointly sell networking services to enterprise customers, helping businesses connect data, applications and infrastructure spread across public clouds, private data centers, offices and partner environments to support the deployment of AI applications. Under the partnership plan, Lumen intends to bring its full suite of cloud networking and application connectivity services to Azure, expanding customers' access to related services through Microsoft Cloud and the AI ecosystem. The two companies will also strengthen joint customer planning and explore bringing more Lumen services to Azure and Microsoft Marketplace. Its existing service Alkira is already available through Microsoft Marketplace. (Jiemian)