Oct 20, 2022
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
Award is reserved for companies at the forefront of innovation and growth in their respective industries.
MIAMI, FL, October 27, 2022 Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, received Frost & Sullivans prestigious 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award, recognizing the company for its excellence in best practices in the Latin America data center services industry.
As digital transformation continues to be a key organizational goal for Latin American businesses, it is even more crucial to address challenges such as the growing need for hyperscale capacity from public cloud providers, over-the-top (OTT) content, and media segments, which play a significant role in enterprises increasing demand for data center colocation services during their digital transformation paths. Cirions go-to-market strategy goes beyond its vast expertise and best-in-class capabilities, with customer value as a strategic imperative.
This recognition by Frost & Sullivan underscores Cirions commitment to furthering technology in Latin America and providing the best customer experience possible, said Gabriel del Campo, VP Data Center, Cloud & Security for Cirion Technologies. We strive to understand customers business dynamic and objectives, and to obtain the necessary information to design, offer, implement, and support a suitable solution that allows them to carry forward their business strategies.
Cirion relies on its extensive salesforce and solid presence across Latin America to offer seamless solutions through a combination of network strength and data center footprint and managed services that bridge the cloud, IT infrastructure, and the Edge for workloads and applications, ultimately providing a complete end-to-end solution for optimal performance where digital interaction occurs. Its robust infrastructure, network, and data center options are aligned with market trends and needs. Cirions recent investments in new high-capacity data centers in the region showcase the companys expansion in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
Frost & Sullivan believes that innovation and growth opportunities drive future success, and having a competitive strategy is critical, said Steven Lopez, Best Practices Research Analyst for Frost & Sullivan. Cirion Technologies understands this core concept and is leading the data center services market with its focused presence across Latin America and ability to address customer needs with low latency Edge network offerings. We strongly believe that the company is well-positioned to drive the colocation data centers space into its next growth phase, capturing market share and sustaining its leadership in the coming years.
In 2020, Frost & Sullivan recognized Cirion Technologies (previously Lumens Latin American business, and now an independent company within the Stonepeak portfolio) globally in the holistic web protection market, in 2021 for its excellence in collaboration services, and in 2022 as Latin America Enterprise Services Company of the Year.
Key Facts:
- Criteria used to gauge Cirions performance against competitors in the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award include two key factors: strategy innovation and customer impact.
- Cirion Technologies is leading the data center services market with its focused presence across Latin America and ability to address customer needs with low latency Edge network offerings.
- Cirions recent investments in new high-capacity data centers in the region showcase Cirion Technologies expansion in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
- Cirion offers a wide range of data center services, including colocation, hosting, network storage, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, DDoS and integrated security solutions, all backed by a superior network infrastructure and a highly interconnected and fully redundant Data Center platform, thereby allowing the company to satisfy the regions unmet market needs.
- Cirion was recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Latin American Enterprise Services Provider Company of the Year Award in 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2016.
- Cirion received the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership in the MPLS/IP-VPN Services Market.
About the Award:
- Frost & Sullivan is an international consulting company dedicated to helping clients accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in innovation and leadership.
- Frost & Sullivans Competitive Strategy Leadership Award recognizes the company with a stand-out approach to achieving top-line growth and a superior customer experience.
- Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices.
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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 Americas 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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Oct 20, 2022
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Latin America Enterprise Services Company of the Year Award
MIAMI, FL, October, 20, 2022 Frost & Sullivan awarded Cirion Technologies its prestigious Latin America Company of the Year Award for enterprise services, recognizing Cirion for its strong overall performance and effective strategy.
As digital transformation continues to be a key organizational goal for Latin American businesses, it is even more crucial to address challenges such as finding suitable, cost-effective network services that seamlessly integrate the various technology platforms, applications, and services a business uses.
“After extensive research in this field, Frost & Sullivan firmly believes Cirions outstanding infrastructure and extensive service portfolio, along with its dedication to identifying and addressing the obstacles of digital transformation and efficiency, successfully meets the unmet needs of enterprises and government agencies, said Ignacio Perrone, Research Director for Frost & Sullivan. Cirions unparalleled expertise in the convergent telecom-IT services arena earns the company an undisputed place as a full enterprise service provider.
As part of its analysis, Frost & Sullivan found that many customers face big decisions regarding IT investments that will support their digital transformation and communications initiatives. Based on Frost & Sullivans research, Cirion has positioned itself well, with products and services to help customers integrate existing platforms and bring new services online.
Cirion captured a first-mover advantage in bringing to market a first-of-its-kind product and agreement package in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution in Latin America. Enabling the next generation of network optimization, Cirions SD-WAN empowers organizations with intelligent routing, faster branch site deployment, centralized policy management, and direct internet connectivity to public clouds and cloud applications.
Cirion raises the standard to the next level for its range of value-added, managed, and data center services, with a broad unified communications and collaboration solutions suite for the traditional Ethernet and broadband infrastructure, said Perrone.
Cirion is committed to partnering with Latin American businesses to achieve their technological goals and continue on their digital transformation journeys, said Leonardo Barbero, President & EVP of Products and Sales for Cirion Technologies. Enterprises are facing an ever-changing technology landscape, with high-capacity demands, security concerns, and the need to migrate to new platforms. This recognition by Frost & Sullivan validates our efforts to deliver a simple enterprise user experience with sophisticated capabilities and reinforces Cirions ongoing leadership in delivering a wide range of services that meet our customers needs, all while providing a high level of service.
Key Facts:
- The criteria used to gauge Cirions performance against competitors in the Company of the Year Award category include two key factors: growth performance and customer impact.
- Cirions value-added services, reinforced by its innovative solutions, position the company as a best-in-class leader in Latin America.
- Cirion offers a range of services, including SD-WAN, CDN, WAN optimization, and network management, all backed by a superior network infrastructure, allowing the company to satisfy the regions unmet market needs.
- Cirion was recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Latin American Company of the Year Award with enterprise services provider market in 2019, 2018 and 2016.
- Cirion received the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership in the MPLS/IP-VPN services market.
About the Award:
- Frost & Sullivan is an international consulting company dedicated to helping clients accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in innovation and leadership.
- Frost & Sullivans Best Practices Award recognizes companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development.
- Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices.
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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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Sep 28, 2022
Cirion expands its Managed Network Services with Secure SD-WAN
Cirion combines high-quality connectivity and cybersecurity experience with Secure SD-WAN solution, thus converging security and networks to reduce complexity and costs.
MIAMI, FL. September 28 2022 – Cirion announced the expansion of its secure SD-WAN Managed Service, delivering organizations with networks and security in a single, high-value-added converging solution for customers.
SD-WAN allows organizations of all sizes enhance their experience in application use as well as user’s experience, while enabling flexibility and bottom-line benefits of a hybrid network.
Network Transformation to support remote work, cloud access from anywhere, and inclusion of IoT devices lead to a broader attack surface, which means that perimeter-based traditional security is not enough. Organizations that procrastinated the decision to tackle this issue have incurred in unnecessary costs, complexities, and risks in their networks.
To deal with cyberthreats new scale and variety, which continues to grow at an alarming rate, the implementation of Secure SD-WAN is imperative, since it entails the evolution of traditional perimeter security protecting the network in a comprehensive and native way.
With Secure SD-WAN, Cirion expands its offer with more benefits for their customers, including:
- Enhanced performance and experience: customized configuration where critical applications traffic is prioritized in real time to improve network performance and accelerate cloud services adoption and integration.
- Efficient Operations: overall site management, troubleshooting and service activation in new branches by means of a friendly web portal.
- Integrated Security: this solution combines unified connectivity and security capabilities to preserve networks integrity and availability.
- Reduced cost and improved ROI: single, integrated security and connectivity solution that enables faster convergence, thus bringing cost decrease and higher return on investment.
Latin America is in a particularly good place as far as appropriation and use of this technology is concerned. In this context, Cirion becomes a great partner for those organizations seeking to implement faster and safer digital transformation solutions, says Javier Colucci, SD-WAN Product Manager for Cirion in Latin America. We are an ally for their businesses and we accompany them to follow the path of innovation and the adoption of relevant and key technologies.
Cirions experts support customers in every implementation and operation stages, from initial configuration and deployment up to monitoring, management, and continuous improvement.
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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Apr 10, 2022
Cirion to deliver 30 Gbps Ethernet speeds to more than 14 markets in Latin America
Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Curitiba, Santiago, and Bogotá are the first cities to gain access to Cirion’s high-bandwidth Ethernet upgrade
MIAMI, FL, October 04 – Cirion, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America, formerly Lumen Technologies operation in the region, is investing in a high bandwidth Ethernet architecture to enhance experiences on its platform and deliver updated Ethernet services to more than 14 major Latin American cities, gradually implementing them up to the end of 2023.
Currently the company has access to speeds of up to 10 Gbps for Ethernet, which will reach 30 Gbps for internet services in the following cities: Buenos Aires (Argentina), São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), and Bogotá (Colombia). Other markets that will gain access to these faster speeds in the upcoming months will be Lima (Peru), Mexico DF (Mexico), Quito (Ecuador), among others.
“Internet of Things, augmented reality, voice and video apps our customers want and need faster, more accessible bandwidth to support these technologies,” said Leonardo Barbero, President & EVP of Products and Enterprise Sales for Cirion Technologies. “Aligned with our purpose to further progress of Latin America through technology, we are committed to investing in a 100-gigabit metro network across the region. This focus will equip our next-generation architecture with swifter Ethernet speeds. Cirion’s network investments will enable our Platform to deliver the apps and data businesses need.”
Highlights
- This high-bandwidth Ethernet architecture also enables 30 Gbps speeds for Cirion Dedicated Internet Access (DIA), Cloud Connect and IP VPN services.
- It represents a 10-fold increase in Cirion’s current standard Ethernet capabilities, the next step in the company’s Ethernet strategy.
- Cirion’s Ethernet upgrades meet Metro Ethernet Forum’s (MEF) 3.0 standards, which helps deliver enhanced performance management and end-to-end service visibility both on- and off-net.
Cirions Ethernet solutions safely connect Data Centers, clouds, premises, VPNs and LANs with dynamic flexibility and dedicated connections performed on our scalable network.
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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Mar 15, 2022
BUENOS AIRES, March 09, 2022. In 2021, the number of Latin American customers who acquired Lumen’s Edge Computing services doubled when compared to the previous year. We notice a growing interest in different industries, particularly in those where latency is critical, such as entertainment, content creation, e-commerce, and public cloud service providers, said Leonardo Barbero, Lumen Latin Americas senior vice president of products and access management.
Additionally, the company maintained its plan of early and continuous investments to expand its networks and deliver the best customer experience possible, even when faced with peak demands due to the acceleration of digital transformation.
During 2021, the expansion of regional data centers including facilities in São Paulo (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Quito (Ecuador), Cali (Colombia) and Lima (Peru) were intensified, and there was an approximate 12% increase in installed capacity across Latin America.
Lumens Content Delivery Networks (CDN) capacity to meet the growing demands of global broadcast companies, over-the-top (OTT) video streaming platforms, and video game companies that provide high-performance web applications, ultra-high definition (UHD) video streaming, and game downloads, already reaches 10 Tb/s. This equals twice the capacity of the peak traffic record registered, ensuring maximum performance.
Moreover, nodes were added to our network in 15 Latin American cities to offer more services to more users (each new node represents a new market), while we deployed 878 kilometers of optical fiber, added 10 Tb/s of capacity to our terrestrial optical networks, and doubled the peering capacity, allowing more than 17 Tb/s exchanges with other providers.
Regarding direct connectivity to the cloud, four new cloud computing providers (CSP) data centers were interconnected, positioning Lumen as the only company to reach every data center of the regions four main global CSPs.
These efforts are all backed up by recognition from the marketplace: for the second consecutive year, Lumen was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for network services, global.
In terms of products, the focus on security was emphasized in 2021: we increased security levels in SD-WAN solutions, implemented the SASE strategy (Secure Access Service Edge architecture), increased Event Correlation capabilities for better event monitoring, and reinforced application and service protection with WAF (Web Application Firewall) solutions.
Furthermore, to ensure the highest level of quality and compliance with rigorous international standards, our regional data centers successfully completed four new certification processes and received thirty-three recertifications throughout the year.
For Voice services, Lumen extended coverage of its 2-Way Voice and PSTN Replacement services, which now reach seven on-net markets in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru). This gives customers access to more than 300 cities and to geographic and toll-free numbering services, call origination/termination, as well as to emergency services, among others.
Another of Lumens key objectives is to drive a more sustainable world, which is why all data centers are designed, built, and operated in accordance with leading energy efficiency standards. To this end, Elera Renewables, Canadian group Brookfield Asset Managements power generating company, sold 100,000 renewable energy certificates (I-REC) to Lumen Technologies, validating that the electricity consumed by data centers in Brazil is supplied entirely by renewable sources. We are exploring opportunities to promote clean energy across the region, affirmed Barbero.
We aim to deliver robust, high-quality, maximum-security services that allow our customers to benefit from limitless growth, said Lumen’s Leonardo Barbero. We are constantly keeping an eye on trends to anticipate needs and provide cutting-edge solutions, he concluded.
About Lumen Technologies:
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences.
Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at www.lumen.com
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Jan 8, 2022
Cirion announces its transaction close; Launches its brand, purpose and executive leadership team
Through its extensive fiber footprint, data centers and network assets, Cirion aims to assist companies of Latin Americas most relevant industries in their path to digital transformation.
Marks completion of Stonepeaks acquisition of former Lumen Technologies Latin American operations
BUENOS AIRES and NEW YORK, August 01, 2022 Cirion, previously the Latin American operations of Lumen Technologies, today announced the launch of its brand, its purpose of furthering progress in Latin America through technology, and executive leadership team to create a leading digital infrastructure and technology company in Latin America.
The completion of the sale of Lumen Technologies Latin American operations to Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, gives Cirion greater flexibility to expand its business in the region and allows the company to form new strategic alliances while offering the regional and global solutions customers expect, with the services they need.
Cirions purpose is to further progress in Latin America through technology, assisting companies across relevant industries in their paths to digital transformation. Enterprises based in the region will continue experiencing the same high quality service and network levels they were accustomed to with Lumens Latin American business.
Cirion and Lumen will maintain a strategic partnership to help ensure a seamless global experience and continuous service to customers in the region. This relationship includes reciprocal reselling and network agreements that leverage each others extensive fiber footprints, data centers, and other network assets.
Cirions leadership team has more than 20 years of experience working together to drive the companys growth. Facundo Castro will serve as Cirions Chief Executive Officer. Cirion has also made several new hires in recent months into the companys executive team, all of whom bring extensive experience in the sector across the region.
We believe technology is key to our digital future and know what it takes to drive industry change. We are confident that we have the right people, partners, and resources to bring fast, reliable, and exceptional services to our customers, said Facundo Castro. We are very enthusiastic about the opportunities that lay ahead and look forward to positioning ourselves as the technological partner of choice for Latin Americas most relevant industries.
Closing this transaction marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Cirion as the company continues to expand its fiber and data center network across its already strong footprint in Latin America, said Stonepeak Managing Director and Co-Head of Communications Andrew Thomas. We are excited to partner with Cirions team and apply our experience as active investors in global digital infrastructure to drive sustainable long-term growth.
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About Stonepeak
Stonepeak is a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets with approximately $49.3 billion of assets under management. Through its investment in defensive, hard-asset businesses globally, Stonepeak aims to create value for its investors and portfolio companies, and to have a positive impact on the communities in which it operates. Stonepeak sponsors investment vehicles focused on private equity and credit. The firm provides capital, operational support, and committed partnership to sustainably grow investments in its target sectors, which include communications, energy transition, transport and logistics, and social infrastructure. Stonepeak is headquartered in New York with offices in Austin, Hong Kong, Houston, London and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.stonepeak.com.
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 Americas 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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Lumen Public Relations
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