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Lumen advances its transformation and agrees to acquire cloud-networking company Alkira

Lumen reported that strategic revenue had surpassed legacy revenue in the first quarter of 2026 and announced an agreement to acquire cloud-networking company Alkira. The deal is intended to combine Lumen's physical network with Alkira's cloud-native network-as-a-service control plane for enterprise AI workloads.