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Scale AI workloads

Optimize multicloud application performance

Move data and applications quickly between clouds with resilient, high-performance connectivity built for modern workloads.

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More clouds shouldn't mean more latency

As organizations expand across multiple cloud providers, application traffic often takes unnecessary network paths that can increase latency, costs and potential points of failure. The challenge isn't simply connecting clouds. It's ensuring workloads, data and users can communicate quickly and reliably wherever they reside.

Lumen brings together centralized routing, private connectivity, direct cloud access and dedicated edge compute across clouds, data centers and enterprise locations. These capabilities can help organizations minimize unnecessary network travel, place compute-intensive workloads closer to users and strengthen network resilience as multicloud environments grow.

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Power performance across every cloud

Traditional cloud architectures can introduce unnecessary complexity, latency and points of failure. Lumen brings together centralized routing, private cloud connectivity and dedicated edge compute to help move data efficiently, support resilient cloud access and bring latency-sensitive workloads closer to users when performance demands it.

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Connectivity

Move workloads efficiently

Route traffic directly between clouds, sites and data centers to help improve workload mobility, minimize latency and simplify connectivity as environments grow.

Lumen® Multi-Cloud Gateway

Connectivity

Reach clouds directly

Connect to priority cloud regions through multiple dedicated paths that are designed to improve redundancy, minimize single points of failure and support consistent application performance.

Lumen® Cloud Interconnect

Connectivity

Scale bandwidth on demand

Quickly provision and adjust connectivity as demands change. Support application growth, data-intensive workloads and cloud expansion without redesigning the network.

Lumen® Ethernet Fabric Connect

Infrastructure

Place workloads closer to users

Deploy dedicated compute on Lumen edge nodes to support latency-sensitive, compute-intensive applications closer to users.

Lumen® Edge Bare Metal

125+

Cloud on-ramps across major markets

Private connectivity to leading cloud providers helps reduce latency and accelerate cloud access.

2,200+

Connected public and private data centers

Reach cloud, colocation and enterprise environments through an extensive connected ecosystem.

34%

Faster AI inferencing

An AI inferencing workload ran significantly faster on Edge Bare Metal during customer testing. <sup>*</sup>

Up to 100 Gbps

On-demand bandwidth scalability

Scale to support growing application, data and AI workloads without redesigning the network.

Lumen® Multi-Cloud Gateway

Lumen® Cloud Interconnect

Lumen® Ethernet Fabric Connect

Lumen® Edge Bare Metal

Looking for specific info?

Find it here in the FAQ section.

Traffic moving between cloud providers, data centers and users can experience latency when it follows inefficient network paths. Private, direct connectivity helps reduce unnecessary hops, improve application responsiveness and support consistent workload performance across distributed environments.

Organizations running applications, data platforms and AI workloads across multiple cloud providers often need faster, more predictable connectivity. This includes enterprises modernizing applications, expanding cloud usage or supporting data-intensive workloads across regions.

Public internet connections can introduce variable performance and unpredictable routing paths. This solution uses private connectivity options that operate separately from the public internet, helping provide more consistent performance, lower latency and greater reliability for critical applications, data and cloud workloads.

AI applications and analytics platforms often require high-performance connectivity and intensive compute. Private multicloud connectivity helps move data efficiently across environments, while Edge Bare Metal runs latency-sensitive AI inferencing closer to users on dedicated infrastructure.

Resilience starts with reliable connectivity. This solution helps organizations build resilient multicloud architectures through private cloud connectivity, direct routing paths and connectivity options designed to support availability for business-critical applications and workloads.