# CenturyLink American telecommunications company that acquired [[wiki/Qwest Communications|Qwest Communications]] in 2011 and renamed itself [[wiki/Lumen Technologies|Lumen Technologies]] in 2020. CenturyLink's acquisition of Qwest brought the [[wiki/US West|US West]] Baby Bell lineage into its corporate structure. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].