This badge recognizes Lumen as the Best in Show winner in the AI Infrastructure category at the AI Networking Summit, produced by ONUG and held October 28-29, 2026, in New York City. The Best in Show Awards honor standout products that can be deployed in large-scale enterprise IT environments and deliver measurable business value. Winners were chosen by the enterprise IT attendees themselves, the practitioners who buy, build, and run these systems, with one winner selected per category. To compete, entrants took on ONUG’s Fall 2026 Demo Challenge, “One Control Plane, Every Domain,” showing how their technology meets the controls of a reference architecture developed by ONUG’s Collaborative Working Groups. Entries were judged against that architecture and on innovation, differentiation, and business value, and entrants presented their solutions live to attendees on the show floor. Earning this award means Lumen’s solution was judged by enterprise IT leaders to be the strongest in AI Infrastructure: tested against a shared industry framework and chosen by the people who put it to work.