Feb 28, 2023
Infrastructure as a Service: Cirion Technologies presents their new product Bare Metal Cloud
Minimal latency, provisioning speed, autonomy in management and use, and fixed prices in Reais are some of the main benefits
São Paulo, February 28, 2023 – Cirion Technologies, a digital infrastructure and technology provider is expanding its technological infrastructure in Brazil, by launching a new product Bare Metal Cloud. This resource enables any platform customer to allocate a single (dedicated) server, thus providing minimal latency, provisioning speed, autonomy in use and management.
Initially this technology will be available for Cirions customers with computational needs in São Paulo, as from March, and in Fortaleza (CE) and the Northeast region as from April.
Bare Metal Cloud service offers automated computational capacity, next to the big centers allowing your solutions to benefit from very low latency. Additionally this solution enables absolute agility since it is ready to user, says Rodrigo Oliveira, Data Center, Cloud & Security Director for Cirion Brazil.
Other benefits to highlight:
- Remote control of the equipment,
- Fully exclusive customer dedicated resource;
- Provisioning speed;
- Flexible configuration;
- Possibility of integration with legacy systems;
- Security provided by Cirion’s Data Centers, with the highest international certification standards, including Tier III of the Uptime Institute.
With Bare Metal Cloud, Cirion brings greater cloud agility to computing infrastructure through an innovative as a service capability.
According to IDC, cloud consumption by the Telecom segment should grow 32.2% average in IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) over the next 5 years. Furthermore, virtualization of telecommunications networks is one of the main trends identified this year for Brazil.
Cirion will expand this service in Brazil and Latin America throughout 2023, aimed at offering computational capacity in different regions with minimal latency, integrated into zones.
About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America´s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 6,400 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region.
Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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Dec 15, 2022
Elections 2022: Internet Providers Deliver Digital Infrastructure
Cirion Technologies was one of the ISPs providing internet connectivity, SD-WAN, and cybersecurity solutions
São Paulo, December 15, 2022 – The second ballot of 2022 Elections totaled more than 124MM people going to the polls, as reported by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE -for its acronym in Portuguese-) According to the Federal Justice body, Brazil is the fourth largest democracy and owns the major computerized election worldwide, since all voting is done through electronic ballot boxes. This makes our country a world benchmark in electoral security.
This voting mechanism has existed for more than 25 years and was fully computerized in 2000, when all Brazilian municipalities began to use electronic ballot boxes during elections, according to the TSE.
During the voting period, the ballot box operates in isolation and without any connection to data networks, however, after the counting closes, connectivity and security technologies are necessary to guarantee the aggregate results are conveyed.
The technological breakthroughs raised the need of creating solutions meant to guarantee information integrity and security in this verification process, mainly for fraud and cyberattacks prevention. These technologies are available through internet providers, who work to fight and minimize potential risks. Cirion Technologies, leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, was one of the companies working in tandem with the Regional Electoral Courts (TRE) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to guarantee security of elections in the Federal District and other States: Ceará, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo.
During the first and second rounds, Cirion focused on network security, Internet and SD-WAN solutions, thereby enabling data transmission and long-distance network management.
“To guarantee the voting process security and combat any type of potential threat online, our security and network team created an action plan to monitor and act immediately, in the event of contingencies, several days before the election,” said Danilo Cereza, Sales Director in Cirion Brazil.
According to a Black Lotus Labs report, Telecommunications, Software and Technology, and Government were the most affected terminals by cyberattacks. This implies that internet evolution not only calls for more data protection. The providers role to fight against potential threats, primarily upon situations like a presidential election is as well highlighted.
This is why being prepared to combat any risk immediately becomes essential. During the elections, Cirion experts conducted a thorough monitoring and follow-up, to increase security of the process and, fortunately, there were no contingencies, continued the executive.
Cirion was also responsible for providing connectivity to the worldwide web. Initially, 2 Gbps accesses were available, however a 10 Gbps upgrade was made in advance to the first electoral round, because of the large volume of access to the services provided by the TSE. According to the TSE, the internet speed allowed voters to know which candidates were elected within 3 hours further to the close of voting. In countries where voting is still on paper, total vote counting can take days before results are released.
About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America´s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 6,400 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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Sep 29, 2018
SÃO PAULO, Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Global communications and IT service provider CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) has completed a fiber optic route expansion in the Northeastern region of Brazil. Extending approximately 2,300 kilometers, the new route connects cities between Fortaleza, CE and Salvador, BA.
- See the new route in Brazil
CenturyLink’s already established infrastructure concentrated in Fortaleza, CE, serves as a connection point between its terrestrial and submarine cables, providing direct connectivity to its approximately 720,000 kilometers of fiber routes globally. The company also has sales offices in the capital cities of Recife, PE, and Salvador, BA.
This new route enables transport and IP services (Internet, IP VPN and high-capacity EVPL), in addition to providing access to CenturyLink’s comprehensive global product portfolio and to a diversity of fiber routes, for the deployment of contingency environments.
“As Brazilian companies’ technological needs increase, CenturyLink is committed to meeting our customers’ current and future business needs,” said José Eduardo Freitas, director of data products connectivity, media and IP for CenturyLink in Brazil. “We understand how important it is to have a secure and reliable network that delivers faster connections to support the evolution of business. With this expansion, we can offer local infrastructure and support to more companies in the region, as well as global connectivity, thus creating a portal for the exchange of information, both nationally and globally.”
Key Facts:
- The new 2,300-kilometer fiber optic route connects Fortaleza to Salvador.
- This route enables transport and IP services (Internet, IP VPN and high-capacity EVPL) in intermediate cities in Fortaleza, Mossoró, João Pessoa, Recife, Rio Largo, Arapiraca, Aracaju, Alagoinhas, Camaçari and Salvador.
- This network has an installed capacity of more than 300 gigabits in the transmission layer.
- With the beginning of this route’s operation, corporations, internet service providers, telecommunications companies and local governments will all have access to high level services, in addition to regional or global reach and the advantage of concentrating everything in a single provider with a diversity of routes.
- CenturyLink has an infrastructure of more than 26,000 kilometers distributed throughout Latin America.
- CenturyLink has approximately 450,000 route miles of fiber globally and serves customers in more than 60 countries.
- CenturyLink’s global IP infrastructure capacity exceeds 72 terabits per second.
- CenturyLink has more than 100,000 on-net buildings around the world.
Additional Resources:
- CenturyLink’s network map
