Meet Alkira + Lumen at ONUG
in NYC, October 28-29

The Trusted Network for AI

Alkira and Lumen are teaming up at ONUG to show how Lumen Connect, powered by Alkira, connects machines, people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly. One control layer. Every cloud. Total control, globally.

Why Alkira + Lumen

Building One Control Layer

AI is rewriting the rules of enterprise networking - more clouds, more sites, more partners, more urgency. Legacy network architectures weren't built for this pace.

Alkira delivers network infrastructure on demand, with built-in segmentation, centralized policy, and visibility through one controle plane. Together with Lumen's global reach and high performance transport, that menas greater agility and control across your enterprise. Together, the solution provides one control layer across your entire network connecting every cloud, every site, and every partner in minutes, with one policy model consistentluy enforced everywhere.

This is the network AI needs: fast to extend, simple to govern, and secure by design.

Alkira Takes the Stage at ONUG

Alkira will be on stage at the ONUG AI Networking Summit with three sessions on how enterprises can build networks ready for AI. Add these sessions to your agenda!

Keynote: Thursday, Oct 29 | 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Networks Aren't Built Anymore — They're Consumed: The Wide Area Reimagined for the Agentic Era

Speakers:

Amir Khan, CEO and Founder | Alkira, a LumenConnect Solution

Nick Lippis, Co Chairman | ONUG

For forty years we built networks for one purpose: human-to-human communication. Ask an AI to design a network for what's actually coming — agents talking to agents, machine-speed flows with traffic patterns no one can fully predict, full-mesh communication returning at a scale telephony never imagined — and it would not build what we built. That gap is now the defining problem of the wide area network. The center of gravity has already shifted: applications moved into the clouds, the WAN's spokes now point at the enterprise rather than out of it, and the agentic workloads arriving next will demand connectivity that can be summoned, shaped, and secured as fast as the machines that use it. Meanwhile, as data center buildout collides with political and physical limits, the network — not the facility — becomes the layer that determines what enterprises can actually deploy.

In this keynote, Amir Khan lays out Lumen's answer: the wide area network as something you consume, not construct. One fabric that abstracts every cloud to look the same from a networking perspective, virtualized cloud exchange points interconnected across the highest-speed physical infrastructure in the industry, and network infrastructure-as-a-service that turns intent into global deployment in an instant — with zero-trust segmentation built in, so autonomous agents operate inside enforceable boundaries rather than an open field. Then the argument leaves the slideware: senior infrastructure leaders from Fortune 100 enterprises join Amir on stage to describe what they're actually running — why they stopped building WANs, what consuming the network changed about their operations, and what they need next as agentic traffic arrives. The morning's story — autonomous operations, the new operating model, the new compact — ends here, in the wide area, where it has to work across the world.

Wednesday, Oct 28 | 2:45 PM

Building Networks on Demand: A Practical Blueprint for AI

Speaker: Misbah Rehman, VP of Technical Product Management | Alkira, a LumenConnect Solution

Supporting AI means connecting applications, data, and compute wherever they run. For network teams, the challenge is making those connections quickly while maintaining consistent security and control across clouds, data centers, and sites.

This session walks through a programmable approach to enterprise networking, bringing connectivity, routing, segmentation, and visibility into a consistent operating model. Using the Lumen and Alkira approach as a practical example, we will examine how to provision connectivity, apply policy, and adapt traffic paths as requirements change. Attendees will learn what to standardize and automate to make network changes simpler and more repeatable.

Wednesday, Oct 28 | 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Re-Architecting the Enterprise Network for AI: From Legacy IP Fabrics to AI-Native Infrastructure

Speakers:

Sukruth Srikantha, VP of Solutions Architecture | Alkira, a LumenConnect Solution

Raj Purkayastha, VP and Head Sales Engineering | Tata Communications,

Victor Moreno, Cloud Networking Solutions Product Manager | Google Cloud

Traditional enterprise IP networks - designed for small, random, short-lived flows - are structurally incompatible with AI's traffic patterns: synchronized, long-lived, bandwidth-hungry, and catastrophically sensitive to tail latency. This panel brings together the network architects who have actually redesigned their fabrics for AI, sharing what they changed, what they got wrong first, and what every enterprise network team must address before AI workloads hit production.