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Solution Videos

One Network, Every Cloud, Total Control. Globally.

Connecting your network was never the hard part — controlling it everywhere is. In this episode of Doodles with Scott, Lumen sits down with Alkira SVP of Product Scott Yow to break down how Alkira extends a single, unified control plane beyond the Lumen network — across every cloud, SaaS platform, branch, data center, and...
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Webinars

The Programmable Blueprint: Architecting Enterprise Networks for Scale, Speed, and Control

Enterprise networking has become too complex to scale with legacy architectures alone. Every new cloud, site, partner, application, and workload adds another layer of infrastructure, policy, and operational overhead. In this webinar, Sukruth Srikantha, VP of Solution Architecture and Kevin Kramer, VP of Sales at Alkira, discuss how enterprises can rethink network scale without disruptive rearchitecture. The session explores how cloud-delivered network infrastructure can help...
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Solution Videos

Lumen + Alkira: Building the Control Plane for AI-Era Enterprise Networking

Discover how Lumen and Alkira deliver a unified, AI-ready networking platform that combines Lumen’s global connectivity with Alkira’s Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS). Learn how organizations can simplify multicloud networking, integrate security, and deploy a secure global network in minutes through a single, cloud-native operating model. See how the combined solution helps enterprises accelerate AI adoption, modernize...
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Lumen + Alkira: The Programmable Network Enterprises Need Now

The enterprise network was built for an earlier era: Workloads lived in data centers, traffic patterns were more predictable and adding capacity often meant another hardware cycle. That model no longer matches how enterprises operate. Applications, users, data, partners, clouds and AI workloads now span many environments at once. East-west workload movement is growing across...
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Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Enterprise Networking 2026

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2026 signals a clear inflection point: legacy WAN infrastructure is giving way to software-driven, cloud-native connectivity. Gartner places cross-cloud networking, alternative WAN backbone services (XBaaS), and AI network fabric among the highest-priority innovations in enterprise networking — driven by distributed AI workloads, multicloud architectures, and escalating security demands....
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Webinars

How to Build Networks That Hold Up Under Pressure

As cloud environments become more distributed, dynamic, and AI-driven, resiliency can no longer be treated as an afterthought. In this webinar, Santosh Kumar Dornal, VP of Engineering, and Syed Ali, VP of Solution Engineering, explore the architectural principles enterprises should apply to build resiliency into the network from the start. The session covers how to...
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What Is Model Context Protocol? MCP Explained

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open standard that allows AI applications to connect to external data, tools, APIs, and business systems in a consistent way. Instead of requiring a custom integration for every AI model and every enterprise system, MCP provides a standard connection layer between AI assistants and the systems they need...
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What Is an Enterprise RAG System? Retrieval-Augmented Generation Explained

What Is an Enterprise RAG System? An enterprise RAG system is a production-grade AI architecture that combines large language models with secure retrieval from enterprise data sources. RAG stands for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It allows an AI system to retrieve relevant information from internal knowledge sources, add that information to the model’s prompt, and generate a...
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How Does Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service Enable Enterprise Agility?

From Rigid Infrastructure to On-Demand Networking Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or NIaaS, enables enterprise agility by delivering network infrastructure as an on-demand, cloud-delivered service instead of a fixed set of hardware appliances, colo hubs, and manually managed configurations. This allows enterprises to deploy connectivity faster, scale capacity as business needs change, apply consistent policy across environments, and...
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Introducing the Alkira Mobile App: Network Visibility Wherever, Whenever

Enterprise networks are expected to run 24/7, and the teams responsible for them need visibility wherever work happens. Cloud environments, partner connections, security services, and provisioning workflows are constantly changing. When something needs attention, network and operations teams need a fast way to understand what happened, assess impact, and take the right next step. That...
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Case Studies

Fortune 10 Healthcare Case Study: Reducing Complexity and Creating a Centralized, Scalable, Cloud-Ready Architecture

This case study highlights how a Fortune 10 healthcare company transformed a fragmented, acquisition-driven network into a centralized, scalable, and cloud-ready architecture with Alkira Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Facing growing operational complexity across Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, data centers, SD-WAN, and partner environments, the organization used Alkira to standardize connectivity, segmentation, routing, and security policies across its...

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