Lumen and Meter capitalize on AI enterprise transition with new WAN-to-LAN solution
Key Highlights
- Accelerates site activation and simplifies enterprise network deployment through AI-driven workflows.
- Provides unified visibility of WAN and LAN performance metrics via the Meter Dashboard for better network management.
- Streamlines procurement processes, enabling faster scaling and easier management of complex, multi-site environments.
- Supports future integration with Meter Command and Lumen APIs for automation and end-to-end network control.
- Aligns with the growing Network-as-a-Service market, facilitating agile, consumption-based enterprise networking solutions.
Lumen partnered with Meter to create a new Wide Area Network (WAN) and a Local Area Network (LAN) solution, reflecting the service provider’s move to help enterprise manage their AI transitions.
The Lumen x Meter offering combines Lumen’s WAN with Meter’s intelligent LAN platform to provide software-defined connectivity that helps businesses connect, scale, and manage their networks.
A big focus of the platform is simplicity.
Through a single procurement flow in Meter Connect, enterprise customers can now purchase the integrated WAN-to-LAN solution designed for faster deployment, unified visibility, and lower total cost of ownership.
The new joint solution will also soon be available in the Microsoft Marketplace, providing customers with a streamlined, compliant path to their existing Azure commitments and incentives, bringing additional value for Azure customers.
“Our partnership with Lumen unifies WAN and LAN into a single experience and extends our vision to simplify how enterprises connect,” said Anil Varanasi, co-founder and CEO of Meter.
Enhancing activation and visibility
Lumen’s x Meter solution reflects the service provider’s ongoing drive to bring the best building blocks to the table for enterprises through its Connected Ecosystem.
According to the company, the Connected Ecosystem integrates hyperscale cloud providers, data center infrastructure services and technology partnerships into one seamless platform—built to help simplify scaling, boost responsiveness and balance cost.
Lumen’s joint offering with Meter provides customers with various key benefits:
- Speeding deployment time: Accelerated site activation compared with traditional provisioning workflows.
- Unified visibility: WAN and LAN performance metrics available in a single pane of glass through the Meter Dashboard, including circuit health and installation metrics from Lumen.
- Streamlined procurement: A simplified, AI-driven workflow to scale.
Already, Lumen and Meter customers like Brex and Bridgewater are seeing the benefits of the solution’s end-to-end visibility and simplifying the buying and management of enterprise connectivity.
Network as a Service momentum grows
The Network as a Service market is set to reach $115.6 billion in 2030, reflecting what Mordor Intelligence says is a shift by enterprises from capital-intensive hardware ownership toward consumption-based service models that align operating budgets with agility needs. Cloud-first transformation roadmaps, SD-WAN and SASE rollouts and AI-driven network-assurance engines that reduce time to repair to under five minutes are driving the momentum for NaaS. Mordor noted that North America retains primacy through robust enterprise digitalization and a mature managed-services ecosystem, while Asia-Pacific posts the fastest growth, supported by large-scale modernization programs and strict data-sovereignty mandates.
Reducing multi-site friction
Given the diverse complexity of serving multi-site businesses, the partnership between Lumen and Meter is designed to help organizations reduce deployment friction, gain real-time insights, and optimize network performance across complex, distributed environments.
Additionally, Lumen and Meter are also developing deeper integrations that will bring WAN insights and automation directly into Meter Command, offering natural language control and end-to-end visibility across the entire enterprise network stack.
Lumen’s APIs and Lumen Connect digital platform will allow for future scale, enabling customers to design, purchase, and manage Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) through a consumption-based model.
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