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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Cirion partners with Tata Communications to Elevate CDN Services Throughout Latin America

Feb 20, 2024

Cirion partners with Tata Communications to Elevate CDN Services Throughout Latin America

Strategic collaboration will enable Cirion and Tata Communications to rapidly scale and become one of the largest Content Delivery Network (CDN) service providers in the region

MIAMI, FL, February, 20, 2024 – Cirion Technologies today announced it has partnered with Tata Communications, the global commtech (communications technology) player, to provide a world class content delivery network (CDN) in Latin America. The collaboration will empower Cirion to enhance its CDN capacity in the region and expand the reach leveraging Tata Communications’ global CDN network. The partnership will further improve the content delivery experience for customers of both Cirion and Tata Communications, ensuring fast and secure delivery within the region and beyond.

Ensuring fast content delivery and functionality is crucial in providing customers with engaging digital experiences. For this, reliable and efficient data flow is imperative. The strategic partnership with Tata Communications will allow Cirion to rapidly scale as market demand increases. Cirion will significantly increase its ability to seamlessly deliver high-quality rich media content throughout the region and become one of the largest low-latency CDN service providers across Latin America. Customers will also enjoy the facility of having a simplified configuration and management of their content delivery with real-time insights.

“The increasing rapid growth of data consumption and Internet traffic across major Latin American cities, caused by the exponential growth of mobile users, IoT devices, Cloud applications, among others represents new demands on networks, which have to continue optimizing and upgrading in order to scale and deliver the necessary performance required by users,” said Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies. “These days, customers expect a very rich user experience coupled with good response times. Tata Communications’ strength in the media and entertainment services ecosystem was one of our main drivers to choose them to partner with for our CDN services and keep satisfied customers”.

According to a study by Frost & Sullivan, the global CDN market reached $14.68 billion in 2022. The consulting firm also projects the market to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.41% and reach $33.30 billion in 2029. During that period, the content delivery segment will see a growth rate of 4.58%, the edge computing segment (30.99%) and the security segment (15.71%) ¹

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

Dhaval Ponda, Vice President and Global Head of Media and Entertainment at Tata Communications said, “In today’s fast-paced world, swift and secure delivery of content is of paramount importance. Our commitment is to excel in this endeavor, ensuring that Cirion customers across the region experience seamless and efficient content delivery. Tata Communications has made significant investments in global media edge to support low latency CDN. And with this new partnership, we are poised to redefine the standards of excellence in content delivery, ensuring an unparalleled experience for customers.”

Many of the world’s leading media and ecommerce sites rely on Cirion’s programmable edge and proven customer service to grow their businesses and enable reliable content delivery to users around Latin America.

As a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, Cirion counts on 50,000 kilometers of terrestrial long-haul and metropolitan fiber optics, as well as 36,000 km of submarine cables and 18 landing stations, setting a structure that allows it to operate with scalable networks capable of adapting to the increase in connected users without having them experience a slower navigation.

Tata Communications offers a world-class, digital-first suite of media solutions underpinned by a media platform built especially for global media, sports and entertainment segments. It manages the end-to-end production, distribution and delivery, including the management of media supply chain workflows of live and on-demand video content. Through its international licenses and various partnerships, TC’s core solution spans 190+ countries, comprising a world-leading Video Connect Network, build-for-media edge services, and a cloud-based Media ecosystem that powers the entire value chain to bring content from every corner of the world to screens worldwide.

About Tata Communications

A part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications (NSE: TATACOMM; BSE: 500483) is a global digital ecosystem enabler powering today’s fast-growing digital economy in more than 190 countries and territories. Leading with trust, it enables digital transformation of enterprises globally with collaboration and connected solutions, core and next gen connectivity, cloud hosting and security solutions and media services. 300 of the Fortune 500 companies are its customers and the company connects businesses to 80% of the world’s cloud giants. For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.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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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 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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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2023 Company of the Year Award in the Latin American Telecommunication Data Center Services Industry

Dec 20, 2023

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2023 Company of the Year Award in the Latin American Telecommunication Data Center Services Industry

MIAMI, FL, December, 21, 2023 Frost & Sullivan awarded Cirion Technologies with the 2023 Best Practices Company of the Year Award in the Latin American telecommunication data center services industry. This award recognizes Cirions consistent growth strategy based on a visionary understanding of the future and for effectively addressing new challenges and opportunities.

The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies and its resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.

Making Strategic Decisions with a Far-reaching Impact

Frost & Sullivans research identifies that environmental sustainability is a top priority for governments, businesses, and data center service providers. The increasing regulatory focus on sustainability and greater customer awareness requires sustainability to be a part of colocation service providers core value proposition. Thus, market participants focus on best-in-class data center design and management tools, creating energy-efficient facilities that utilize renewable resources to reduce carbon footprints.

Cirion implements cutting-edge technologies to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs and carbon footprint, and facilitate renewable energy system integration.

Moreover, Cirion supports projects that create new sources of clean energy and propel programs in the areas where it operates, including renewable energy and renting solar systems that inject a portion of consumption back into the grid.

Cirion aims to increase renewable energy consumption from 38% to 50% in 2023 through power purchase agreements in different markets.

Cirions sustainable initiatives solidify its leadership position and testify to its dedication to building efficient data centers.

A Trusted Regional Leader

Leveraging a robust infrastructure and product portfolio, Cirion is a leading technology provider in the region. In LATAM, enterprises, carriers, hyperscalers, and all the interconnection ecosystems challenges revolve around digital transformation and improving customer experiences. With over 30 years of experience, Cirion addresses these challenges by facilitating businesses with the essential expertise and tools to thrive in LATAMs evolving environment, said Josefina Pavón, growth advisory consulting analyst for Frost & Sullivan.

Frost & Sullivan applauds Cirion for its leadership focus and best practices implementation, addressing unmet needs in LATAMs telecommunications data center services.

Cirion recently announced the construction of two new data centers of 20 MW each, one in Lima, Peru (LIM2), and the other in Santiago, Chile (SAN2). These will meet the needs of hyperscale cloud service providers, operators, content providers and businesses that need scalable infrastructure. It also expanded its data center complex in São Paulo (SAO1), Brazil, with a new 3,600m² building that increases its total capacity by more than 50%.

Cirion owns and operates a carrier-neutral data center hyperconnected platform that connects the main carriers in the region. This allows companies to connect to those they prefer to exchange or distribute content with, taking into account their reach and sustainable operations.

At Cirion we focus on innovation to provide better services to our customers. All our efforts are driven to these goals while implementing sustainable practices in all company projects, said Gabriel del Campo, Regional VP, Data Centers for Cirion Technologies. It is essential to always keep in mind that sustainability begins in design but is materialized in sustainable operation. In that sense, Cirions data centers implement technologies that reduce the impact of the carbon footprint, generating greater efficiency, minimizing operating costs, and facilitating the integration of renewable energy systems. We are very focused on the environmental, social, and governance axes.

This recognition by Frost & Sullivan validates our efforts to provide sustainable operations with sophisticated capabilities and reinforces Cirions ongoing leadership in the data center industry. Cirion is committed to helping Latin American businesses achieve their technological goals and continue on their digital transformation journeys, stated the executive.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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