Scalable Networks: the key to connecting millions of users all at onc
This computing systems capability is critical at times when operational loads increase exponentially, such as during the Qatar 2022 tournament, where millions of users connected simultaneously to watch a game.
There are more smart devices connected to the Internet every day. In fact, according to the Plume IQ Smart Home Market Report, the number of connected devices per home currently averages 17.1 10% more than the 15.5 reported in the first half of 2021. Europe registers the largest increase, going from 15.4 to 17.4 13% more.
Faced with this continuous increase in new users, the only way for networks to continue operating with the same speed and data transfer standards is to be scalable, which means that they can react and adapt without losing the quality of their processes.
This computing systems capability is critical in times when operational loads increase exponentially, such as during the Qatar 2022 tournament, where millions of users connected simultaneously to watch a game.
There are circumstances where the existing internet architecture cannot keep up with user demand, comments Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies. At such times, relying on distributed systems and hybrid architectures, that is, the interaction of private and public clouds, as well as traditional and Edge data centers, makes it easier to scale resources up and down to accommodate heavier or lighter loads as needed.
In Latin America, Cirion Technologies 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.
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 the Cirion executive.
According to Statista, there will be 996 million connected devices in Latin America next year, and 1.2 billion connections are expected by 2025 approximately 64% will be for consumers, including devices for smart homes, wearables, and autonomous vehicles, among others.
Given this scenario, Girardotti states that this exponential growth of mobile users, IoT devices, Cloud applications, among others, represents new demands on networks, which will have to continue optimizing and upgrading in order to scale and deliver the necessary performance required by users.
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.
Cirion adds Zoom Phone to its managed Unified Communications solutions portfolio
A corporate telephony solution that powers video collaboration. The Zoom Phone service allows users to have the best collaboration tools while enabling access to voice calls through the public network.
BUENOS AIRES, May 2, 2023 Today, many business activities occur in several platforms and the hybrid work format brought a series of online solutions to support remote work and improve employees’ productivity, efficiency, and comfort. However, when it comes to seeking solutions that favor connectivity between teams, we are faced with a frequent problem: communications platforms.
Many times, the systems available to workgroups haven’t been updated to the features required by new working formats. The solution to this issue will arrive with Zoom’s latest release: Zoom Phone.
At Cirion, we have deployed this new tool as a service, offering companies and institutions support in defining their needs, integration of their own network services, and customized management adjusted to corporations’ business needs, explains Pablo Landea, Voice & Collaboration Product Manager at Cirion Technologies.
Zoom Phone is a modern, private corporate telephony platform that offers Software as a Service (SaaS). This solution integrates collaboration capabilities for customers who want to maintain their own video communications, allows users to have the best collaboration tools and, at the same time, enables access to voice calling services over the public network (PSTN), among other features.
Zoom’s entire platform space was specifically designed to function as a whole. Consequently, user experience is intuitive, it automates tasks, simplifies management, and allows them to work from anywhere, including hybrid environments, adds Landea.
Whether through Zoom’s marketplace or other manufacturers’ ecosystems, Zoom Phone can be integrated with Microsoft Office 365, MS Teams, Salesforce, and Zendesk environments and several contact center and customer experience applications. Additionally, the platform guarantees a 99.999% voice and video service level.
This system was developed as a unified concept within the Zoom public cloud application ecosystem so that the platform offers workgroups chat, private telephony, whiteboard, meetings, and events, and enables access to other applications that possess artificial intelligence services bringing the possibility of integration to other developers to add value to each business’ workflows.
For Cirion’s executive, the Zoom Phone application was designed as a cloud solution for corporate private telephony so it can be easily integrated with other infrastructures and is compatible with a wide range of user devices and meeting rooms to support each customer’s needs in a customized manner.
The unified communications platform has centralized management that provides reports, call monitoring and even allows recording and encryption, for caller security. This way, the company that adopts this tool maintains its telephone lines and, in addition, allows employees to have an extension on their mobile phones while expanding communications from chat to call and from call to videoconference.
The key values delivered by Zoom Phone are:
Quality and Security
Simplified user experiences
Easy handling for platform administrators
Ability to integrate with legacy systems migration needs
Agility and continuous innovation without the need for further investments
For companies, Zoom Phone offers among other benefits reduced operational costs, increased profitability for better productivity, significant improvement in effectiveness for users, and access to a simplified collaborative environment.
The Zoom Phone service will be available through Cirion, a provider that integrates its own network services to manage the solution.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
