Alkira, a Lumen company, is the on-demand platform for connecting, securing, and operating distributed enterprise networks across every cloud, site, partner, data center, and AI workload.

Now part of Lumen, Alkira brings a cloud-native control plane to one of the world’s most trusted network foundations, helping enterprises simplify complex hybrid and multicloud environments through one programmable operating model. Teams can design, route, segment, secure, observe, and orchestrate connectivity across north-south and east-west traffic flows without deploying hardware, managing gateways, or stitching together fragmented tools, providers, and cloud constructs.

Together, Lumen and Alkira give enterprises cloud-like consumption with private-network performance: on-demand connectivity, consistent policy, integrated security, and visibility across global environments. The result is a simpler way to build and operate enterprise networking with the speed, control, and resilience required for today’s cloud, AI, and distributed application architectures.

Founded in 2018 by Amir and Atif Khan, the creators of Viptela and pioneers of the SD-WAN market, Alkira was built to reinvent networking for the cloud era. That mission continues as part of Lumen, expanding Alkira’s reach with Lumen’s global network scale, high-performance transport, and enterprise connectivity.

“Alkira,” meaning “blue sky,” reflects our vision for a network that behaves like the cloud: consumed as a service, deployed in minutes, governed from one place, and ready to connect the enterprise wherever it needs to go.

Welcome to the future of networking. Welcome to Alkira.