Lumen Norristown

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Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Norristown

Distance	Site	About
0.75 miles	Colocation America - Philadelphia DC2
0.75 miles	TierPoint Valley Forge	The site is a former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014
3.99 miles	GSK Phoenixville
3.99 miles	Flexential Philadelphia - Collegeville
4.56 miles	DāStor: 3400 Horizon	The facility is network neutral with multiple carriers in place and a redundant fiber ring that connects to 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia
5.35 miles	DāStor: 411 Swedeland	This site is designed to support Life Science and Technology Companies.
7.30 miles	Windstream Conshohocken
9.19 miles	Pennhurst Data Center	The East Vincent Township supervisors unanimously rejected Pennhurst Holdings LLC’s conditional-use application for a massive data center campus on the 125-acre former Pennhurst State Hospital site.
11.22 miles	1547: Chester County, PA
11.69 miles	Project Laurel	MCD 7 LLC’s Project Laurel is a high-density, AI-ready data center campus designed to leverage the specialized infrastructure of Limerick Township.
11.97 miles	Constellation Energy: East Coventry	The proposed Constellation Energy Data Center in East Coventry Township is a massive planned campus intended to span five parcels (approximately 100 acres).
12.39 miles	Comcast National Data Center: East Goshen
16.27 miles	365 Philadelphia (University City)	Located in downtown Philadelphia at the Penn Medicine Science Center
16.81 miles	Lumen Philadelphia 3
17.19 miles	Verizon: 2401 Locust	Former XO Communications facility
17.19 miles	Quonix - Philadelphia
17.19 miles	Lumen Philadelphia 4
17.23 miles	365 Philadelphia (Downtown)	Built 2009 inside 1500 Spring Garden Street, a 1947 former GlaxoSmithKline (SmithKline) corporate headquarters building converted by SunGard Availability Services. PA1 in 365's portfolio.
17.24 miles	H5 Philadelphia
17.28 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
17.46 miles	Verizon: 401 Broad
17.46 miles	Lightower Philadelphia 1309 Noble
17.47 miles	11:11 Systems: Philadelphia	11:11 Systems acquired this data center (along with other Sungard Availability Services assets) in November 2022.
17.49 miles	Crown Castle 401 N Broad
17.49 miles	Lumen: 401 N Broad
17.49 miles	401 North Broad St - Netrality Philadelphia	Premier core interconnection data center in Philadelphia
17.49 miles	DataBank Philadelphia PHL1
17.49 miles	Equinix Philadelphia PH1
18.17 miles	Lumen Philadelphia 2

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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...

Centersquare sued by investment manager CenterSquare

December 20, 2024 Philadelphia

Philadelphia-based investment manager CenterSquare has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against data center firm Centersquare. The lawsuit, filed on August 24, includes allegations of cybersquatting, or using a domain name too similar to a protected trademark with the intent to profit from...

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...