LUMEN
How customers view Lumen ' s business is ultimately defined by how the business sees itself . The evolution of technology has been applied to everything Lumen does , from provisioning and activation through the ability to scan across the entire network topology , assess any layer 2 or 3 services that are impacted and tie it into the network visualization dashboard so customers can run their NOC ( network operations center ) from toolsets provided by Lumen , in the user interface ( UI ) or API formats . “ We are no longer talking about a telco or network company : this is a true technology company .”
The 4th industrial revolution ( 4IR ) Our customer conversations are no longer limited by network products . “ Today we are talking to our customers about applicationlevel services that permit them to meet their business needs without having to worry about the things that are not within their core competency . We have the ability to deliver low latency-based solutions and are creating the platform for businesses that they can build upon to create brand spanking new industries that have never even existed before .”
It ’ s this level of flexibility that offers our customers the ability to leverage our API enabled network to extend the reach of the public cloud to the metro and premise edge . It ’ s at this point that a company ’ s applications lose their historical limitations and new applications begin to bud . This combination of compute and network will drive change across all industries and create or fuel new ones . For example , self-driving cars , industrial robotics or the medical and pharmaceutical industries where it has made possible the rapid development , manufacturing and distribution of vaccines during the current pandemic , not to mention the analysis of data relating to their efficacy in controlling infection . “ The ability to provide five millisecond latency to applications allows high-speed transaction capability over the top of the secure network , thereby extending your platform capabilities and not requiring you to invest in data center capacity .”
4IR leverages the power of data to drive automated transactions . Software development should no longer be driven by requests from operations .
396 June 2021