AI Is Forcing Enterprises to Rethink Network Infrastructure, Lumen CEO Says
After selling its fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T, company pivots toward enterprise AI infrastructure.
After selling its fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T, company pivots toward enterprise AI infrastructure.
BARCELONA, March 4, 2026 — Artificial intelligence is driving a redesign of global network infrastructure, as enterprises build faster, programmable systems to handle exploding data workloads, Lumen CEO Kate Johnson said Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress here.
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Johnson leads Lumen Technologies, a Louisiana–based enterprise networking and fiber infrastructure company that has repositioned itself around digital connectivity for large-scale computing systems.
“The architectures are changing, the workloads are exploding, and users are getting more impatient,” Johnson said.
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