Cirion Technologies strengthens its Data Center business

Mar 11, 2024

Cirion Technologies strengthens its Data Center business

Nelson Fonseca joins Cirion to augment its executive team

MIAMI, March 11, 2024 – Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure in Latin America, announced the appointment of Nelson Fonseca as President of its Data Center business, effective immediately. Nelson’s appointment reflects the continued growth in demand in the region and Cirion’s commitment to continue to provide its customers with a comprehensive set of colocation and interconnection solutions for their digital needs.

Nelson brings more than 25 years of experience in the digital infrastructure space to Cirion, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cyxtera, a global provider of data center and interconnection services. Nelson was previously a partner at Medina Capital and served as President of Terremark until its $2 billion sale to Verizon in 2012.

Cirion is backed by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets that manages approximately US$61.1 billion in assets and a broad portfolio of global investments in communications and digital infrastructure. Stonepeak’s global data center portfolio includes Cirion in Latin America, Cologix in North America, Digital Edge in Asia and a joint venture with American Tower’s CoreSite in the United States.

“We are excited to welcome Nelson to Cirion, as the Company continues to rapidly scale its data center business across Latin America. Nelson is a dynamic and proven leader that we have known for many years. We look forward to partnering with him at Cirion, a key part of Stonepeak’s global data center franchise,” said Stonepeak Senior Managing Director, Andrew Thomas.

“Nelson is a highly respected leader with more than 25 years of experience in the market and deep relationships throughout the industry. We believe his expertise will be a valuable addition to Cirion’s rapidly growing data center business,” said Facundo Castro, Cirion´s CEO.

“The data center industry is currently experiencing unprecedented growth driven by the continued proliferation of the public cloud and the rapid onset of artificial intelligence. Latin America will benefit greatly from this dynamic and Cirion is in a privileged position to capture this growth due to its broad footprint and leading interconnection ecosystem in the region. I am honored to join the Cirion team at this exciting time to bring digital infrastructure solutions to our hyperscale, service provider and enterprise customers.” said Fonseca.

Cirion recently announced the construction of two purpose-built data centers in Santiago, Chile (SAN2) and Lurín, Peru (LIM2), to serve the rapidly growing cloud demand in the region. Both facilities will initially target 20MW of capacity with further expansion potential. Cirion also finished the previously announced expansion of its data center complex in São Paulo, Brazil (SAO1), increasing total capacity by more than 50%, and has begun the expansions of its data centers in Rio (RIO1) and Buenos Aires (BUE1). These projects ensure continued scalability for Cirion’s customers as cloud adoption and digital demand continues to proliferate rapidly across Latin America.

About Cirion:

Cirion is a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networking, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of promoting Latin America’s progress through technology. Cirion serves more than 5,500 Latin American and multinational clients, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, operators, ISPs, and other leading companies. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of its own networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion in www.ciriontechnologies.com

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Latin America’s Leading Digital Infrastructure Provider Cirion Joins Connectbase Platform

Feb 20, 2024

Latin America’s Leading Digital Infrastructure Provider Cirion Joins Connectbase Platform

BOSTON, MA, USA – February 22, 2024 – Connectbase, the global marketplace for connectivity, is thrilled to announce that Cirion, a trailblazing digital infrastructure and technology provider with over 30 years of experience in Latin America, has officially become a featured seller on the Connectbase platform. This strategic collaboration will empower Cirion to showcase and automate the sale of its extensive suite of connectivity solutions. By loading its footprint onto the platform, Cirion aims to enhance accessibility for its buyers and other ecosystem customers, streamlining the process of purchasing cutting-edge digital infrastructure services.

Cirion’s integration into the Connectbase platform and API Fabric signifies a strategic alignment of goals. This collaboration will enhance Cirion’s ability to showcase and automate the sale of its connectivity solutions, providing an enriched experience for buyers within the Connectbase ecosystem.

Benefits of the Collaboration:

Streamlined Connectivity Solutions: Buyers within the Connectbase ecosystem will have streamlined direct API access to Cirion’s cutting-edge connectivity solutions and be able to quote Cirion’s services in Latin America.
Global Reach: Cirion, as a leading Pan-Latin American network present in 20 countries, will bring a expansive reach to the Connectbase platform, enriching the diversity of connectivity options available.
Innovation and Progress: Both companies share a commitment to innovation and progress, ensuring that customers receive the necessary connectivity and IT resources to meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in Latin America and worldwide.

Connectbase CEO Ben Edmond and Cirion’s EVP of Global Sales, Gabriel Holgado, issued a joint statement expressing their excitement about the partnership:

“We are thrilled to embark on this journey with Cirion. This partnership represents a union of expertise and innovation that will redefine the digital infrastructure landscape. Together, we look forward to empowering businesses with seamless connectivity solutions and driving progress in Latin America and beyond.”

About Connectbase

Connectbase is the leading global marketplace platform for the digital infrastructure and connectivity industry. Connectbase is a partner to the industry, enabling best-in-class deep, trusted location insights; next-generation applications for suppliers, partners and buyers, and is the world’s largest connected API Fabric for Service Providers. Connectbase’s industry-leading platform, The Connected World, serves over 360 providers globally, managing 2.7 billion locations across more than 150 countries. The Connectbase connected ecosystem which transforms network buying and selling processes is updated 80 billion times a month. Visit Connectbase at connectbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/connectbase-us/.

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Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networks, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communications and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America’s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 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 portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com

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CBC Tech and Cirion Technologies forge Strategic Partnership to expand Global Presence

Jan 19, 2024

CBC Tech and Cirion Technologies forge Strategic Partnership to expand Global Presence

MIAMI, FL, and BEIJING, January, 19, 2024 – CBC Tech, a next-gen Network as a Service Provider in Asia Pacific, has entered into a strategic partnership with Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America. This collaboration aims to significantly broaden market penetration and enrich customer offerings across Latin America, China, and Asia Pacific for both companies.

The partnership will enable CBC Tech serving as a pivotal partner, distributing Cirion’s infrastructure and IT services across 20 countries in Latin America to the customers in China and Asia Pacific. Leveraging CBC Tech’s extensive network and expertise, Cirion aims to meet the needs of the customers in China and Asia Pacific, with local touch and local support to deliver the best customer experience.

For CBC Tech, recognized for its innovative technology solutions, this partnership marks a pivotal opportunity to diversify and strengthen its product portfolio in Latin America. By integrating Cirion’s services into its offerings, CBC Tech is poised to enrich its service portfolio, providing customers with an expanded range of sophisticated solutions in Latin America.

Ricky Chau, Chief Strategy & Customer Officer at CBC Tech expressed excitement about the collaboration, stating, “Our partnership with Cirion signifies our commitment to expanding our global footprint to serve growing customers demand for services in Latin America. This collaboration will undoubtedly elevate our depth and breadth of services in Latin America for our customers.”

Gabriel Holgado, Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Cirion, shared his optimism, saying, Our alliance with CBC Tech strengthens our commitment to our customers in China and the Asia Pacific. We anticipate that this partnership will enable us to effectively respond to our clients specific needs.

The partnership between CBC Tech and Cirion is a testament to a strategic alliance focused on driving innovation, expanding global reach, and delivering top-tier services to customers across various regions. This collaboration is set to redefine the technology solutions landscape in Latin America, China, and Asia Pacific.

About CBC Tech

CBC Tech is a next-gen Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, offering patented SD-WAN fabrics across 70 cities in China and internationally. CBC Tech enables cloud-native network and security for enterprises over their SD-WAN fabrics, integrated with congestion-free IP and networks, mobile access, network appliance, multi-cloud connects, and cloud-based security to deliver superior application performance with an excellent customer experience. For more information about CBC Tech, visit the website at www.cbctech.com

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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 5,500 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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Cirion and Qwilt Partner to Revolutionize Content Delivery Services Throughout Latin America

Jan 17, 2024

Cirion and Qwilt Partner to Revolutionize Content Delivery Services Throughout Latin America

New partnership brings better digital experiences across live streaming, video-on-demand, and other forms of media and application delivery to 600+ million Latin American consumers
Makes Cirion one of Latin Americas largest low-latency CDN service providers
Empowers global content publishers to maintain a top Quality of Experience (QoE) and deliver locally amid rising content demand

MIAMI, FL, and REDWOOD CITY, CA, January,17, 2024 Cirion Technologies and Qwilt today announced their partnership which will expand Qwilts global ecosystem of service providers to bring a more efficient and scalable content delivery network in Latin America. This transformative partnership means higher quality live streaming, video-on-demand (VoD) and all other forms of media delivery to the over 600 million consumers across all of Latin America.

The exponential growth of mobile users, IoT devices, and cloud applications globally brings new demands on service provider networks. By combining with Qwilts all-edge global delivery network, Cirion ensures content reaches subscribers with superior quality, improving digital experiences across the region while enabling content and application publishers worldwide to deliver locally to their viewers, wherever they may be. Qwilts powerful solution, deeply embedded within network infrastructure, empowers service providers to optimize and efficiently scale their networks while continually delivering great digital experiences.

Data consumption and Internet traffic is increasing rapidly across Latin America, and content providers need delivery services that are efficient in light of growing competition for Internet bandwidth. With this agreement, Cirion and Qwilts combined CDN offerings are strengthened, meeting the needs of CDN customers, said Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies.

Cirion´s content delivery network enables reliable content delivery to users around Latin America. Many of the worlds leading media and ecommerce sites rely on its programmable edge and proven customer service to grow their businesses. This new partnership, based on Qwilts Open Caching technology, allows Cirion to scale up rapidly as market demand increases. It substantially increases Cirions ability to reliably deliver high-quality live and VoD streaming throughout the region and becomes one of the largest low-latency CDN service providers across Latin America.

As a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, Cirion counts over 50,000km of terrestrial long-haul and metropolitan fiber optics, 36,000km of submarine cables and 18 landing stations, allowing it to operate with scalable networks capable of adapting to the increase in connected users without impacting their QoE.

Our infrastructure adapts dynamically and in real-time to market demands, enabling an efficient management of critical applications and their data. This makes it possible for companies to identify market trends in advance and respond quickly, with solutions that stimulate future growth, says Girardotti.

Cirion is an exciting addition to our global ecosystem of service providers, and we are delighted to help power a unique content delivery service offering in Latin America, said Alon Maor, CEO, Qwilt. Our all-edge architecture provides a new economic model for streaming delivery, in which Cirion´s network infrastructure and CDN services play a central role in the end-to-end value chain. This announcement underscores the momentum we are gathering as we realize our ambition to build the worlds highest performing edge delivery network.

About Qwilt

Qwilts mission is to deliver connected experiences at the quality they were imagined. Its model is built on partnerships with service providers and content publishers, globally, to create a fabric that powers high-performance delivery of media and applications at the very edge of neighborhoods, big and small.

Qwilts open architecture and inclusive business model make local edge delivery more accessible than ever before, unlocking more reliable, higher quality-of-experience at greater scale than previously possible. A growing number of the worlds leading content publishers and cable, telco, and mobile service providers rely on Qwilt for Edge Cloud services, including BT, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Italia, and Verizon.

Founded in 2010, Qwilt is a leader of the Open Caching movement and a founding member of the Streaming Video Alliance. Qwilt is backed by Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Ventures, Disruptive, Innovation Endeavors, Marker, and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, visit www.qwilt.com.

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Cirion publishes its first Sustainability (ESG) Report: Inspiring a Sustainable Future

Dec 14, 2023

Cirion publishes its first Sustainability (ESG) Report: Inspiring a Sustainable Future

Cirion reinforces its commitment to sustainable growth and to the creation of a positive impact in its Latin America communities

MIAMI, FL, December, 14, 2023 Cirion Technologies today released its first Sustainability Report, as a recently established standalone company, which highlights the company’s ESG goals, sustainable practices and its progress and commitment in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) landscapes.

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This first Sustainability Report follows the most recognized international standards, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.

Through our long corporate history, we have learned that an appropriate ESG strategy not only involves reducing socio-environmental impact, but also involves the creation and commitment to a sustainable, inclusive business model, aligned with our corporate values and business integrity standards, stated Facundo Castro, CEO of Cirion Technologies.

Cirion’s ESG commitments include:

Inspiring Sustainable development: We are committed to sustainable growth and to the creation of a positive impact in our communities by aligning our purpose with our Sustainable business objectives.
Inspiring Security: Cybersecurity is key for our economy, environment and human rights. We guarantee data protection and integrity of our services.
Inspiring Transparency: We are committed to transparency and ethics across our operations. We firmly believe that doing the right thing and acting with integrity are essential to our long-term success.
Inspiring Diversity: We value and celebrate all types of diversity. Our goal is creating an inclusive and respectful environment where everyone is able to thrive and reach their maximum potential.
Inspiring Environmental Value: Our company innovates passionately, but also mindfully. We are committed to providing technological solutions, respecting and protecting the environment.
Inspiring Community: Helping the community is a significant part of our corporate mission, and we are committed to making a positive difference in the communities we serve.

We understand that sustainability is a concern shared with customers, employees, partners, and investors. Therefore, wed like to underscore how these initiatives not only strengthen our values, but also have a positive impact on our business relationships and the world we share.

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Cirion presents SASE: always-protected network services

Nov 7, 2023

Data management and security

Cirion presents SASE: always-protected network services

Solution offers architecture combining integral SD-WAN features with the latest advances in cloud security simplifying operations, increasing productivity, and providing greater visibility of security landscape.

MIAMI, FL, November 7, 2023 One of the main challenges for CISOs and executives responsible for organizations security is to ensure secure network services from any location where users can connect. This is a growing need as companies increasingly adopt SD-WAN to optimize their network performance and new threats emerge beyond the established security perimeter.

With this in mind, Cirion presents its SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solution, which combines the security and connectivity of WAN, LAN, and Cloud networks and remote access, in a single solution. It provides a secure and scalable infrastructure for accessing cloud applications and services, allowing organizations to efficiently secure and optimize network traffic.

Among other benefits, Cirion SASE delivers performance and scalability to optimize critical applications. With Secure SD-WAN as an integral part of the solution, it adds on the benefits of zero-trust remote access (ZTNA) to offer granular access policies tailored to the user, device, location, and role. It also adds LAN protection and management, both wired and wireless. Additional strengths include flexibility and visibility; connectivity and security can be managed from a single management platform, increasing productivity and providing a better overview of the networks design.

In a staggering context where cyber threats become increasingly complex and are multiplied in volume almost daily this tool is essential to stay ahead of the game: continuous updates are provided automatically and controlled centrally.

The components on which SASE is built upon

Cirion SASE integrates various networking, data management, and security products so that companies can continue to lead in a dynamic and competitive world while minimizing their risks. Its components include:

Secure SD-WAN. The foundation on which Cirion SASE is built upon — network management for a hyper-distributed era in which remote work, edge, and ubiquitous access are imperatives. It provides link optimization, intelligent routing, traffic control, VPN capabilities, and application control.
Managed Secure SD-LAN and NAC. Comprehensive solution that offers secure LAN and WiFi network access from multiple devices. It provides visibility, control, and analysis of devices, minimizing the attack surface.
Cloud Security. Comprehensive protection of cloud environments, as if in-premises.
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Centered on “zero trust” so users can access their applications in a seamless and secure manner, it also considers the location of their devices.

The acceleration of digital transformation, the cloud, and the edge took devices, data, and applications far beyond the perimeter of the organization, implying new risks and threats that require the adoption of new strategies, noted Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Product, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Cirion. With SASE, our aim is to integrate security and connectivity in a single solution, to minimize the surface of attacks and offer end-to-end protection.

About Cirion

Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networks, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communications and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 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 portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com

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