You bought NaaS for the flexibility. Almost nobody uses it that way.
Hourly billing, dynamic tiers, scale up for one bad day. The pitch was: pay for what you use.
In practice, connections get provisioned at peak tier on day one and the schedule never changes. So you're paying for 1 Gbps at 2 AM on a Saturday at the same rate you pay for it at 10 AM on a Tuesday, when no one is on the network.
Flux is the management layer Lumen never built. It plugs into the official Lumen API, discovers every IoD connection on your account, and runs the bandwidth schedule the rest of the way. No carrier change. No new contracts. Same Lumen, lower bill.
For MSPs: same play, multiplied. One Flux dashboard runs your entire book of IoD business with full data isolation per tenant, and turns optimization into a managed-service line item with margin.