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Lumen Technologies, formerly CenturyLink, Inc., is an American telecommunications company, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in 37 states. A member of the S&P 500 index, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet access provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon. It also provides long distance service.
Company history with DOE
CenturyLink and its acquisitions, such as Qwest Communications, have supported Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) for many years.
- January 03, 2000 - Qwest Communications Awarded $50 Million Contract to Support Energy Department's Communications Network - Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q), the broadband Internet communications company, today announced that it has been awarded a $50 million contract to support the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet).
- October 21, 2003 - Qwest Provides High-Speed Network for Major Research Institutions In Illinois - Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) today announced that Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy?s largest research centers, has deployed Qwest?s broadband fiber optic network for the Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education (I-WIRE) project. The I-WIRE project provides ultra-high-speed interconnection to major research institutions and universities in Illinois.
- August 08, 2001 - Qwest Communications Partners With Elite Research Centers To Launch The World?s Most Powerful Network
- March 24, 2003 - Qwest Communications to Upgrade Energy Department's High-Powered Communications Network - Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) today announced that it has been awarded a contract extension to upgrade the backbone capacity of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), a network that Qwest has supported since December 1999. Qwest also will upgrade various ESnet connections to scientific and research facilities throughout the United States. Qwest will upgrade portions of the backbone to 10 Gigabits per second by offering QWave services, which are fully managed, all-optical, high-capacity, economical private line services. ESnet is managed from DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA.
- February 01, 2004 - Qwest Announces 5-Year, Multimillion-Dollar Contract To Provide High-Speed Network To Research Facilities In West Virginia - Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) today announced a multimillion-dollar, five-year contract to provide three research facilities in West Virginia with a high-speed optical network (HSON), providing greater communications network bandwidth and future growth capacity to north central West Virginia?s growing technology sector. The OC-12 synchronous optical network (SONET) links the West Virginia University (WVU) Research Corporation in Morgantown, WV, NASA?s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in Fairmont, WV and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, WV. The network also enables connectivity to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) terascale computer, the fastest open research computer in the nation, and to other research organizations nationwide.
- October 25, 2004 - Qwest Communications Upgrades U.S. Department of Energy's Research Communications Network - Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) today announced an extended contract for network connectivity with the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). Qwest?s continued work on ESnet is part of a seven-year contract, which began in 1999 with a contract value of $50 million and has since grown to a potential value of up to $87.5 million.
- March 09, 2005 - Qwest Communications Signs Contract to Connect Facilities for Department of Energy - Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) today announced a new contract to significantly expand network connectivity for several U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites in support of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) run by the DOE?s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The five-year, multimillion-dollar contract continues Qwest?s relationship with ESnet, which began in 1999. Qwest already provides access and backbone services for the DOE ESnet, also managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ESnet operates a multi-gigabit backbone network connecting more than 40 DOE research sites around the country.
2020 name change to Lumen
On September 14, 2020, CenturyLink, Inc announced that it had changed its name to Lumen Technologies, Inc.[1] Effective with the opening of the trading day on Sept. 18, 2020, the company stock ticker changed from CTL to LUMN. The CenturyLink brand will continue to be the customer-facing brand for traditional copper-based services. Fiber-based products and services will use the brand Quantum Fiber.[2]
Contact information
- Amita Russell is a Configuration Management Engineer
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External links
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References
- ↑ Newswire, MultiVu-PR. "CenturyLink Transforms, Rebrands as Lumen" (in en-EN). https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8524356-centurylink-rebrands-as-lumen/.
- ↑ "Lumen CTO Dugan shines a light on new brand name and what it means for enterprises" (in en). 15 September 2020. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/lumen-cto-dugan-shines-a-light-new-brand-name-and-what-it-means-for-enterprises.