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Lumen Unveils Bold Vision for the Internet Backbone to Support the AI Era
DENVER, October 22, 2025--In an urgent call-to-action to hyperscalers, enterprises, and public sector organizations, Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today unveiled a bold vision for reinventing the internet backbone to meet the unprecedented demands of AI. The vision, detailed by Lumen Chief Technology & Product Officer Dave Ward in a newly published white paper, predicts that today’s internet and cloud architectures – designed for Cloud 1.0’s static, centralized computing – cannot withstand the
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