Lumen, the artist formerly known as CenturyLink, has unveiled a new Network-as-a-Service offering, which it claims will shake up the telecom industry. “By offering radical flexibility in how they buy, use, and manage networking services, Lumen is cloudifying traditional telecom,” Lumen claims. So, NaaS is the new platform, but the first service being added is Lumen Internet On-Demand. The plan is to add a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) prevention service, a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and additional Edge functions to the platform. As CEO Kate Johnson puts it, “the Network-as-a-Service offering takes the next step to deliver on our customers’ networking dreams: the ability to fire up any port, with any service, at any time.” So, why does…