How To Migrate Off Legacy Technology And Modernize Your Solutions With Lumen

Learn how Lumen can help you transition from outdated systems and optimize your applications for enhanced performance, security and scalability. 

Trying to keep up with the rest of the world can be difficult and frustrating when you’re using antiquated products. Legacy technology can limit your business growth, expose you to security risks and increase your operational costs. Modernizing your solutions can help you leverage the latest technologies, improve your customer experience and gain a competitive edge in the market. The idea of moving away from legacy technology may sound appealing when your meetings keep disconnecting due to connectivity issues or you’re constantly uncovering new gaps that need to be filled, but the complexity of this journey holds you back.

The modernization journey is not an easy task, as it requires careful planning, execution and testing to ensure a smooth transition with minimal disruption. You need to choose a reliable partner to help you navigate the complexities of transitioning from legacy systems to an advanced, interconnected and interoperable infrastructure that best fits your company’s specific needs. That’s where Lumen comes in.

How Lumen Can Help You Migrate Off Legacy Technology 

Lumen is a global leader in integrated network, edge cloud, security and communication services. We offer a range of solutions that can help you optimize your application performance, from network optimization and acceleration to edge computing and cloud delivery. Lumen can help you transform your application delivery and improve your business outcomes.

• Leverage Lumen network and edge cloud capabilities to optimize your application performance and delivery.
• Utilize our security solutions to protect your applications and data from cyber threats.
• Take advantage of Lumen communication and collaboration tools to enhance connectivity and help improve your customer and employee satisfaction.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these ways and how they can benefit your business.

Network and Edge Cloud Capabilities

One of the main challenges of migrating from legacy technology and modernizing your solutions is ensuring that your applications perform well and deliver a consistent and reliable user experience. Legacy technology can slow down your applications, cause latency and downtime issues, and reduce your flexibility and scalability.

Lumen can help you overcome these challenges by leveraging its network and edge cloud capabilities. Having one of the largest fiber networks in the world, with approximately 350,000 route miles of fiber and 170,000 on-net fiber locations, the Lumen network can provide you with high-speed connectivity, low latency and high availability for your applications.

Lumen also has an edge cloud platform that can bring your applications closer to your users and devices. This platform can enable you to deploy and run your applications at the edge of the network, where most of the data is generated and consumed, helping you to reduce latency, maximize performance, and optimize efficiency and agility.

By leveraging an expansive network and edge cloud capabilities, you can optimize your application performance and delivery to help you provide an exceptional experience for your customers and employees. You can also minimize costs, enhance productivity, and scale your solutions as your business grows.

Security Solutions Can Help Protect Your Applications and Data from Cyber Threats

Another challenge you may encounter is ensuring that your applications and data are secure from cyber threats. Legacy technology can expose you to vulnerabilities, breaches and attacks that can compromise your data, damage your reputation and disrupt your operations.

Lumen has a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions that can help protect your applications and data from end to end, including:

• Network-based security that can detect and mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks, filter malicious traffic and encrypt your data in transit.
• Cloud-based security that can provide you with firewall, web application firewall and secure access service edge services to secure your cloud environments and applications.
• Threat management that can monitor, analyze and respond to threats across your network, cloud and endpoints using advanced analytics and automation.
• Managed security services that can provide you with 24/7 security operations center support, incident response and threat intelligence to help you manage your security posture and compliance.

By utilizing these security solutions, you can help protect your applications and data from cyber threats and maintain business continuity and resilience while minimizing your security risks, costs and complexity to focus on core business objectives.

Lumen UC&C Solutions Help Enhance Customer and Employee Engagement

Enhancing customer and employee engagement is another challenge businesses must overcome. Legacy technology can limit your communication and collaboration capabilities, affect your customer satisfaction and loyalty, and hinder your employee productivity and morale.

Help overcome these challenges by taking advantage of communication and collaboration tools. Lumen has a range of solutions that can help you connect and interact with your customers and employees in more effective and efficient ways.

• Voice and unified communications can provide you with cloud-based phone, video, chat and conferencing services to communicate with your customers and employees across multiple channels and devices.
• Contact center solutions can help you deliver personalized and seamless customer service and support across voice, web, email, chat and social media platforms.
• Collaboration platforms can help you create and share content, documents and files with your employees and partners.
• Application programming interfaces (APIs) can help you integrate communication and collaboration features into your applications and workflows using Lumen’s API platform and developer portal.

By taking advantage of our communication and collaboration tools, you can enhance your customer and employee engagement and maximize your business outcomes. These tools are also designed to help you increase your customer retention and acquisition, boost your employee performance and satisfaction, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Migrating from legacy technology and modernizing your solutions can help you enhance your application performance, security and scalability and achieve your business goals, but it can also pose many challenges and require a lot of time, effort and resources. That’s why you need a partner who can help you navigate the process and provide you with the best solutions for your needs.

By leveraging Lumen’s network and edge cloud capabilities, utilizing security solutions, and taking advantage of communication and collaboration tools, we can help you create a modern digital ecosystem to help you optimize your application performance and delivery, protect your applications and data from cyber threats, and enhance your customer and employee engagement. Lumen can also help you save on costs, improve productivity and scale your solutions as your business grows.

To find out more about how Lumen solutions can enhance your application performance, contact us today and speak to one of our experts.

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