Inflect adds Lumen’s Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) to its pricing tool

Inflect, a marketplace for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure, now offers instant pricing for Lumen Technologies’ Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) service in the Inflect portal. Lumen’s integration into the Inflect portal means that customers turning to Inflect’s global digital infrastructure marketplace to source DIA can receive immediate price quotes from Lumen. 

For businesses, this tool will expedite the quoting process by removing the need to submit a request for pricing that may take days or weeks to complete. Instant pricing for Lumen DIA through the Inflect portal is now accessible in more than 145,000 on-net locations. 

“The inclusion of Lumen DIA in inflect.com significantly reduces our customers’ time and effort directed at researching and sourcing DIA,” said Mike Nguyen, CEO of Inflect.

Historically, finding and purchasing digital services like DIA from providers has been tedious, time-consuming, and manual. Inflect aims to expand the array of infrastructure and services instantly available to buyers and service providers that comprise the Inflect customer base. Attracting a Tier 1 enterprise service provider like Lumen could incentivize Inflect to get others to integrate with its platform. 

Buyers and service providers will now experience a swift and frictionless experience for sourcing Lumen DIA through the Inflect portal.

Lumen’s partnership with Inflect comes when the provider is moving to automate and simplify the ordering process for business services. In tandem with its new cloud migration strategy, the service provider has introduced two innovations to drive business services growth: ExaSwitch and an Internet On-Demand capability on its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform.

“Partnering with Inflect to make instant pricing of Lumen DIA directly available to infrastructure buyers and service providers is part of our commitment to fostering radical simplification across the customer experience and our products,” says Sara Seegers, Lumen National VP, Indirect Channel. “Instant price quotes will help them run their operations faster, enabling them to achieve their business goals sooner. We want to make that as easy for them as possible.” 

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