# Lumen Technologies American telecommunications company, the current incarnation of a succession chain running from [[wiki/US West|US West]] (Baby Bell) through [[wiki/Qwest Communications|Qwest Communications]] and [[wiki/CenturyLink|CenturyLink]]. Lumen represents one of the three major reconsolidation endpoints of the 1984 [[wiki/AT&T|AT&T]] divestiture, alongside AT&T and [[wiki/Verizon|Verizon]]. Documented in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].