Lumen has been recognized with one of the most prestigious and coveted honors in technology, the 2022 CIO 100 award. The award is won by businesses that successfully bring together technology,...

Lumen Technologies has been recognized on the 2021 CRN Edge Computing 100 list. Lumen was named to this list as a leader in providing channel partners with the technology needed to build next-gen,...

Frost & Sullivan identifies three key strategic imperatives that impact the connected work industry: disruptive technologies, transformative Mega Trends, and new business models. Every company...

From number 47 in 2015 to number 14 in 2021, Lumen has been recognized for the seventh consecutive year as one of the Top Employers for STEM Workforce Diversity.

Randomly selected readers of STEM Workforce Diversity magazine chose the top U.S. employers for whom they would prefer to work or believe would provide a positive working environment for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professionals who are members of minority groups, women and people with disabilities.

Frost & Sullivan recognized Lumen with the 2021 Market Leadership Award for United States Business Carriers, Ethernet Services. This award highlights Lumen’s industry-leading Ethernet services, enhanced with software-defined networking capabilities that provide customers with best-in-class solutions. The Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award recognizes the company that achieved the greatest market share resulting from outstanding performance, products, and services.

The efforts Lumen made in 2020 to enhance its Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) service have not gone unnoticed. TMC, a global, integrated media company, recently awarded Lumen a 2021 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Product of the Year Award.

Lumen Technologies is the only company to win Frost & Sullivan's prestigious 2021 Global New Product Innovation Award for its Holistic Web Protection Solutions.

For the third year in a row, Lumen secured this recognition, which positioned it as a best-in-class leader in the region. Frost & Sullivan used two key criteria to gauge Lumen’s performance against its competitors: growth performance and customer impact.

Frost & Sullivan placed Lumen in the upper right of its business Ethernet services Radar, with the highest scores of both growth and innovation indexes compared to any other competitor. It highlighted Lumen’s market share, size and geographical reach.

CRN’s Five Star Rating recognized an elite group of solution providers who offered the industry’s best Partner Programs. CRN selected Lumen for its significant investments in the Channel, best-in-class Partner training and support, innovative marketing programs, and sales incentives.

Lumen secured the top spot in the mid-year rankings, which recognizes network providers who have at least 4% share of the U.S. Ethernet services market. Lumen has held the number one spot continuously since 2017. It was also the only carrier to have attained MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet certification at the time of the survey.

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CRN acknowledged Lumen’s cloud partnerships with companies like VMware, IBM and Google, as well as its edge strategy to deliver low-latency hybrid cloud services across the U.S.

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Based upon 1,600 customer evaluations from nearly 400 individual respondents, Lumen received the Data Value award, given to the global provider that receives the highest combined ratings for perceived quality and price competitiveness of its data service offerings.

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Leading research consultancy and market diligence firm ATLANTIC-ACM announced its 2019 U.S. Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Awards in December. The awards were determined by responses to the firm’s annual customer feedback survey, which collected over 1,300 customer evaluations from nearly 350 individual respondents. CenturyLink was presented with the ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) Award for Billing and Customer Service.

MEF's awards program is the largest in the world enabling next generation network services, including LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration), SDN/NFV, SD-WAN, and Carrier Ethernet technologies. CenturyLink's focus on the customer experience through innovative, relevant and competitive solutions was key to being selected for the following awards: Retail Service Provider of the Year (Global), Retail Service Provider of the Year (North America), Wholesale Service Provider of the Year (Global), SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year (Global), SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year (North America), Enterprise Application Award for Education, Enterprise Application Award for Transportation.

Acknowledging their strong and ongoing commitment to being a diverse and inclusive company, Forbes has named Lumen Technologies to its list of Best Employers for Diversity for the second...

Based on its recent analysis of the North American managed software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) services market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes CenturyLink with the 2019 North American Innovation Excellence Frost Radar Award. By combining its broad network footprint and expertise in managed network services, CenturyLink delivers exceptional SD-WAN services.

Frost & Sullivan has named CenturyLink, Inc. winner of the 2018 Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award in the U.S. MPLS/IP-VPN Services Market. The well-known industry analyst firm recognized CenturyLink as a leading provider of MPLS/IP-VPN services in the U.S. market. "To achieve excellence in competitive strategy is never an easy task, but it is one made even more difficult considering today's competitive intensity, customer volatility, and economic uncertainty," wrote Frost & Sullivan analyst Roopa Honnachari in the award analysis. "Within this context, CenturyLink's receipt of this MPLS/IP-VPN services award signifies an even greater accomplishment."

MEF's awards program is the largest in the world enabling next generation network services, including LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration), SDN/NFV, SD-WAN, and Carrier Ethernet technologies. CenturyLink's focus on the customer experience through innovative, relevant and competitive solutions was key to being selected for the following awards: LSO Leadership, Retail Service Provider of the Year (North America), Wholesale Service Provider of the Year (North America), Enterprise Application – Media.

Frost & Sullivan identified several factors driving CenturyLink's success, including significant growth in the VoIP access and SIP trunking services market through a highly effective merger strategy and carefully considered product integration approach. The company was also recognized for having one of the most diverse communications products and services portfolios in the industry.

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CenturyLink, Inc. has been named an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner. The achievement highlights CenturyLink's ongoing commitment to building robust services on AWS to deliver digital transformation to businesses on their cloud journeys.

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CenturyLink was awarded ATLANTIC-ACM’s 2017 Metro Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Award for Billing at this year’s IMCOMPAS Show in San Francisco.

CenturyLink awarded Top Supplier in Overall Sales, in addition to best performing supplier of colocation at Telarus Partner Xchange.

CenturyLink has been recognized by ATLANTIC-ACM with two Business Connectivity Service Provider Excellence awards for delivering high-quality customer service and value with its retail data service offerings.

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CenturyLink announced today that it has been selected as an authorized commercial internet service provider by The Quilt, a national coalition of non-profit U.S. regional research and education networks representing 40 networks and more than 900 educational institutions across the country.

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CenturyLink has received the Frost & Sullivan 2018 Product Leadership Award for its innovative Cloud Application Manager hybrid cloud management platform, whose dynamic capabilities deliver added value by aligning IT teams around workloads and business initiatives as they pursue their digital transformation goals.

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Live Marketing, an award-winning creative agency, and CenturyLink, its client, earned a silver Stevie® Award in the 2017 International Business AwardsSM. Live Marketing was responsible for the creative strategy and implementation of the project which was honored in the Live Event Category. Judges praised the exhibit for its interactive and personalized visitor experience, calling the program “effective and innovative” and citing its “impressive metrics.”

CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently won a coveted spot on the General Services Administration's 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program, a multiple-award contract vehicle for federal government agencies to purchase information technology and telecommunications infrastructure services.

CenturyLink, Inc. today announced it has once again been positioned as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting, Europe. This marks the fifth consecutive year Gartner has named CenturyLink a leader in this report. The report evaluated managed hybrid cloud hosting solutions from CenturyLink and recognised it as a leading provider based on its "ability to execute" and "completeness of vision."

CenturyLink today announced it won seven awards from MEF that highlight the depth and breadth of CenturyLink's network and managed services, including Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN). Award winners were recognized at the MEF17 networking event held this week in Orlando, Fla.

CenturyLink, Inc. has been named the Asia Pacific Hybrid IT Service Provider of the Year for a third consecutive year by Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting firm. The award recognizes the company's success in solving IT challenges for Asia Pacific businesses that leverage CenturyLink's comprehensive portfolio of hybrid IT services.

CenturyLink, Inc. has been honored as a winner of a VMware 2016 Global Partner Innovation Award in the Cloud Provider category. CenturyLink was recognized at VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2017, held recently in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif. "We are proud of this award because it highlights our success in cloud, including our recent launch of the cloud-agnostic CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager, combined with our long-standing and expanded collaboration with VMware," said Bill Corbin, senior vice president, Alliances and Strategic Partnerships for CenturyLink.

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CenturyLink was named a "Leader" in the IDC MarketScape: Canadian Data Centre Operations and Management Vendor Assessment (Doc #CA40622416, Sept. 30, 2016). The IDC MarketScape measures the capabilities and offerings of data centre service providers and their qualifications to meet the current and future needs of Canadian organizations. CenturyLink delivers hybrid IT solutions for Canadian companies through robust platforms of cloud services and managed hosting combined with four CenturyLink data centres across Canada – two in Toronto, one in Montreal, and one in Vancouver – that are connected with CenturyLink data centres and cloud nodes around the globe. CenturyLink's enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure solutions have been offered in Canada since 2010, and address data sovereignty requirements for Canadian enterprises and multi-national corporations seeking to establish a local presence.

CenturyLink was recognized for innovation in its managed security services (MSS) offerings by two independent analyst firms. CenturyLink was named a "Leader" in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Emerging Managed Security Services 2016 Vendor Assessment, and, separately, CenturyLink was named a "Strong Performer" in The Forrester Wave™: Managed Security Services Providers, North America, Q3 2016. 

CenturyLink won a 2015 TMC InfoTECH Spotlight Data Center Excellence Award for operational excellence and numerous global data center achievements. The award recognizes the most innovative and enterprising data center vendors, and is a reflection of the numerous highlights in CenturyLink's data center business in 2015. In 2015, CenturyLink completed data center expansion projects in Boston, London, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, Seattle and Washington, D.C. The company also grew its market presence into Australia and in central Washington, where it opened a hydro-electric powered data center.

CenturyLink won The Energy Efficiency Improver’s Award in connection with our efforts to increase energy efficiency at our Columbus, Ohio, data center. The award, part of a series that calls out worldwide recognition to outstanding individuals, teams and projects, was given to us by Datacenter Dynamics, an established global source of news and insight on data centers. Upgrading and replacing an existing cooling system using chiller-in-a-box yielded significant returns to the business and environment.

The Excellence in Data Centre Service Award recognizes CenturyLink as a foremost provider of excellence in data centre services and infrastructure. The award applauds our efforts for innovation and operational excellence, on top of a demonstrable track record, “that can be used as an exemplar to the global data centre industry”.

CenturyLink won four fair opportunity award decisions from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide network and data transmission services. The task orders, which run through May 2017, were awarded via the General Services Administration's Networx Enterprise contract and are valued at up to $10 million. CenturyLink will provide Ethernet private line and Internet Protocol services to support advanced data services for global Defense Information Systems Network users in the continental United States.

CenturyLink received the 2016 Asia Pacific Hybrid IT Strategy Award for the second consecutive year from Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting firm. The award, based on Frost & Sullivan's in-depth research and careful evaluation, recognizes CenturyLink's outstanding ability to deliver an integrated and comprehensive hybrid IT portfolio that includes cloud, colocation, managed hosting, network and managed services to meet rising demands for highly automated, efficient, reliable and flexible IT services.

CenturyLink was recognized with the U.S. Theatre/Area Award for Architectural Excellence in Global Cloud Solutions and Business Acceleration at the Cisco Partner Summit 2016, held in San Francisco. Cisco honored CenturyLink for exhibiting the highest level of excellence in the design of networks and customer solutions within the service provider sector in the U.S.

CenturyLink, RAD, Ciena®, and Ciena’s Blue Planet® division recently won the Third Network Proof of Concept Excellence Award at the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 2016 Global Networking event. The Proof of Concept (PoC), titled “Multi-Vendor Service Orchestration Using Open APIs for Service Activation, Performance Monitoring and NFV,” was built on CenturyLink’s network and demonstrated the tangible benefits associated with multi-vendor automation using open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs),  Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Network  Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based value-added services. 

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CenturyLink was named a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting, Europe, by analyst firm Gartner Inc. Gartner analysts Tiny Haynes, Gianluca Tramacere and Gregor Petri authored the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting, Europe, report, published on June 28, 2016. 

CenturyLink was named a leader for the second consecutive year in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Asia Pacific, by analyst firm Gartner Inc. This recognition reinforces CenturyLink's reputation as a leading global hybrid IT provider. CenturyLink was also named a leader in last year's version of the same Gartner report, the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Asia Pacific, which was published November 11, 2015. Additionally, CenturyLink was named a leader in a similar Gartner report, the Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe, published June 28, 2016.