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Lumen Technologies Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Level3 Newcastle

Distance	Site	About
0.02 miles	Secure Newcastle Datacentre
0.65 miles	Pulsant: Newcastle NE-1	A purpose-built single-storey facility of 6,000 square feet in the heart of Newcastle with a single secure data hall supporting a total of 218 racks. Colocation, managed services and on-site cloud are available to all customers.
0.78 miles	Wildcard: Reliance House	Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, Reliance House is a purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center operated by Wildcard Networks.
2.86 miles	Partnership House
2.89 miles	Aspire: Heworth Hall, Gateshead
5.53 miles	Stellium 2
5.61 miles	Stellium Newcastle Campus	The campus, originally constructed by Highbridge as the Cobalt Data Center has a potential for up to 80MW of power.
5.68 miles	Stellium 3
5.98 miles	Pulsant: Newcastle NE-2
6.55 miles	Angel House
12.88 miles	QTS: Cambois Campus	QTS is developing a ten-building data center campus in the north of England. The development is expected to be completed by 2035
12.93 miles	QTS: Cambois DC2	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
12.94 miles	QTS: Cambois DC8	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
12.96 miles	QTS: Cambois DC10	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
13.02 miles	QTS: Cambois DC3	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
13.07 miles	QTS: Cambois DC4	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
13.11 miles	QTS: Cambois DC7	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS data centers' Cambois campus.
13.12 miles	QTS: Cambois DC9	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
13.14 miles	QTS: Cambois DC5	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
13.19 miles	QTS: Cambois DC6	Located in Blyth, Northumberland, this facility is situated on the QTS Data Centers' Cambois campus.
13.49 miles	Wansbeck Regeneration: West Sleekburn Campus	Wansbeck Regeneration has submitted a planning application for a £3.84bn data centre campus in West Sleekburn, located within Northumberland's AI Growth Zone.

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The combined company of CenturyLink and Level(3) has one of the largest networks in the world.

The combined company of CenturyLink and Level 3 is a patchwork of data centers that span over Europe, North America, and Latin America. The data centers came through acquisitions that include Global Crossing (2011) and TW Telecom (2014).

A Timeline of Level 3 Acquisitions

2020: CenturyLink rebrands as Lumen Technologies
2017: CenturyLink acquired Level 3's data centers and network for $34 billion
2015: Black Lotus (for Level3's DDoS mitigation product)
2014 Level 3 acquired TW Telecom for $5.7 billion
2012 Level 3 acquired Voxility
2011 Level 3 acquired Global Crossing (GX) for $2.0 Billion
2007: Level(3) acquired Broadwing for $1.4 billion
2006: Level(3) acquired Progress Telecom for $137 million
2006: Level3 acquired Looking Glass Networks for $96 million
2006: Level3 acquired Telcove (Adelphia Business Solutions) for $1.2 billion
2006: Level3 acquired ICG Communications for $163 million
2005: Level 3 acquired WilTel for $680 million
2002: Level3 acquired Genuity for $242 million

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Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

December 11, 2025 Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce. Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology and...

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

April 15, 2024 Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice,...

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

October 16, 2023 Lumen Technologies

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and...

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

August 03, 2023 Lumen Technologies

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization to...