CenturyLink, Inc. Wins Social Security Administration Wide Area Network Recompete
January 30, 2020 at 01:48 pm
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CenturyLink, Inc. announced that it was selected by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) as a key provider for its Wide Area Network and related high-speed network services. Under SSA's dual carrier network approach, CenturyLink won the task order with the largest scope and is responsible for all single and dual carrier requirements, including architecting and deploying SSA's 100 gigabit business-critical data replication network. The task order was awarded via the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program and has a minimum value of $470 million over the 15-year life of the contract. CenturyLink will provide Ethernet, virtual private network, intrusion prevention and self-healing optical wave ring services with speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps at each of SSA's more than 1,700 locations in the U.S. and around the world, including data centers, field offices, foreign service posts, headquarters, program service centers, regional offices, remote operations centers and external business partner sites. The award also includes secure high-speed cloud connectivity, proactive distributed denial of service protections and a network operations center that supports all SSA activities and its more than 60,000 employees 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. In addition to critical core network services, CenturyLink will provide dedicated program and operations management staff, as well as lifecycle engineering services, in support of SSA's mission to constantly evolve and improve a premier large enterprise network.
Lumen Technologies, Inc. is a facilities-based technology and communications company. The Company provides a range of integrated products and services to its domestic and global business customers and its domestic mass markets customers. It operates through two segments: Business segment and Mass Markets segment. Its Business segment provides its products and services under four sales channels to meet the needs of its enterprise and commercial customers. Its products and services in this segment include Dark Fiber, Edge Cloud Services, Internet Protocol (IP), Managed Security Services, Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD WAN), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Optical Services, Ethernet, VPN Data Networks, Voice Services, IT Solutions and Other Legacy Services. Its Mass Markets segment provides products and services to residential and small business customers. Its products and services in this segment include Fiber Broadband, Other Broadband and Voice and Other.