| Customers: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Contractors: Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) Project date: 2022/01
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On January 20, 2022, it became known that the US Department of Agriculture signed a $1.2 billion contract with Lumen Technologies for the digital transformation of the industry. Among other things, the project involves upgrading the IT infrastructure of the department with "a fully integrated global data service with secure remote access, contact center, and cloud connectivity solutions."
According to Lumen's press release, IT services will be provided in 9.5 thousand branches of the US Department of Agriculture and will serve almost 100 thousand employees. An order for the task was issued as part of the $50 billion 15-year Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program of the General Services Administration.
 | One of America's largest cabinet agencies has chosen Lumen to safely upgrade its network and IT services. We are pleased to help the US Department of Agriculture benefit from modern digital technologies that turn agriculture into precision agriculture, "said Zane Ahmed, senior vice president for the Lumen public sector. - Lumen offers state-of-the-art technology solutions that will make it easier for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to carry out its mission to promote the production of quality food that feeds our people, providing economic opportunities to rural Americans and preserving our country's natural resources through the intelligent conservation of forests and watersheds. |  |
The work under the contract includes a number of solutions, thanks to which the US Department of Agriculture will receive an updated managed and secure network with voice solutions that support speeds of up to 100 gigabits per second.
These solutions include:
- "software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services;
- Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services (MTIPS)
- Network solutions with zero trust
- Peripheral Computing and Remote Access Solutions
- virtual private network services;
- Connect to the cloud
- Unified communications and collaboration solutions
- Contact Center Solutions
- Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), wireless and satellite services;
- network transport and optical wavelength solutions[1]
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