AI Is Forcing Enterprises to Rethink Network Infrastructure, Lumen CEO Says

BARCELONA, March 4, 2026 — Artificial intelligence is driving a redesign of global network infrastructure, as enterprises build faster, programmable systems to handle exploding data workloads, Lumen CEOKate Johnson said Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress here.

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Johnson leads Lumen Technologies, a Louisiana–based enterprise networking and fiber infrastructure company that has repositioned itself around digital connectivity for large-scale computing systems.

“The architectures are changing, the workloads are exploding, and users are getting more impatient,” Johnson said.

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