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Lumen is expanding its Microsoft Azure collaboration, with a new co-selling route for enterprise customers and a focus on AI workloads, Simply Wall St reports. The pitch is to bring private connectivity, cloud migration and AI networking together rather than leave them as separate projects.

The report says Lumen plans to use its Alkira-based cloud networking and private connectivity services in the collaboration. It also points to more than US$13.5 billion in long-term fibre commitments, though it gives no customer examples or details of how the offer will work in practice. That makes this a concrete networking play around AI demand, not evidence yet that enterprises are signing up. Cloud infrastructure is only useful when the connections work as promised, a detail that tends to matter more than the partnership language.

Discuss: Would you choose a bundled cloud-and-networking offer for AI workloads, or keep those services with separate providers?

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