Lumen doubling the size of its US network with six million extra miles of fiber
Lumen Technologies Tuesday said it would double the size of its US intercity network to 12 million fiber miles by the end of 2026. When complete, the telco says the network will connect 50 major cities across the United States at data rates of up to 400Gbps.
According to Lumen — formerly CenturyLink — the expansion will serve both the company’s internal services and fiber, which the telco sells to enterprise and government customers for use in their private networks. For instance, a customer might lease fiber from Lumen to connect its datacenter to a cloud service provider or colocation facility in a neighboring state or city.
Lumen has steadily added capacity to its US and European networks over the past few years, helped in no small part byof Level 3 Communications in 2017. By taking advantage of the multiple access conduits laid more than 20 years ago when the network was initially built, Lumen says it can string additional fibers as capacity demands in a region ramp up and upgrade aging or damaged fiber.
“It’s difficult to upgrade legacy intercity networks without multiple conduits,” Lumen CTO Andrew Dugan said in aAs for the actual fiber filling these conduits, Lumen says it’s continuing to upgrade its intercity network with Corning’s SMF-28 ultra-low loss and SMF-28 Ultra fibers.
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