Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award 

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award 

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 & Sullivan’s 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. Cirion’s 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 Cirion’s 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. Cirion’s recent investments in new high-capacity data centers in the region showcase the company’s 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 Lumen’s 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 Cirion’s 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.
  • Cirion’s 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 region’s 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 & Sullivan’s 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 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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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award 

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Latin America Enterprise Services Company of the Year Award

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 Cirion’s 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. “Cirion’s 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 & Sullivan’s 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, Cirion’s 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 Cirion’s 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 Cirion’s performance against competitors in the Company of the Year Award category include two key factors: growth performance and customer impact.
  • Cirion’s 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 region’s 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 & Sullivan’s 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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Cirion expands its Managed Network Services with Secure SD-WAN

Cirion expands its Managed Network Services with Secure SD-WAN

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 network’s 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”.

Cirion’s 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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CFG-Copeinca and Cirion: A business relationship based on trust, effectiveness, efficiency, and support

CFG-Copeinca and Cirion: A business relationship based on trust, effectiveness, efficiency, and support

CFG-Copeinca and Cirion: A business relationship based on trust, effectiveness, efficiency, and support

  • Strategic partnership between both companies started in 2016 with the migration of CFG-Copeinca’s first data center.
  • Currently, Cirion provides SD-WAN, data center, and cloud services to the fishing giant.

Lima, Peru. October, 2022. – Long-lasting business relationships are based on trust, support, continuous presence during important times, and understanding the strategic needs of the business. These were instrumental factors in the business relationship between Cirion and CFG-Copeinca, which started in mid-2016 when the latter migrated its first data center to Cirion’s[1] facilities.

“Our internal data center was in La Victoria, but an incident almost caused a fire.  Fortunately, there were no personal injuries, but it could have jeopardized operations at headquarters.  As a result, we decided to migrate our critical services to Cirion’s data center, which offered a better technology, with modern equipment and safe, reliable, world-class facilities”, recalls Julio Aquino, Information Technology Manager at CFG-Copeinca.

In 2017, the fishing company consolidated its trust in Cirion’s services and its highly skilled team, always ready to meet their demands.   That same year, CFG-Copeinca was to dismantle a data center located in Hong Kong and transfer it to Lima in only seven days.

“We turned to several providers, who told us that it wasn’t enough time and that there would be logistical issues.  Furthermore, they did not have personnel to accompany us to Hong Kong, and one of the challenges was to travel with a technician specialized in infrastructure and migration issues.  Cirion accepted the challenge and we traveled with one of their engineers.  In six days, we had completed the operation and on the seventh, we started operating in Peru. That was the start of our successful relationship.  Later, we evolved to other platforms and currently, we also count on cloud services.  We are growing together,” says the executive.

Another feature considered of vital importance by the executive is Cirion’s readiness which, together with its last-generation technology, helps this strategic partnership grow stronger over time.  This is why CFG-Copeinca – through its Information Technology Management – trusted the implementation of other solutions to Cirion’s specialists.

The deployment of a new MPLS network, for instance, was the first approach to the organization’s needs for better communications between offices, meeting the requirement of better connectivity along the entire Peruvian coast where the company has plants, and offering uninterrupted connections and high-level security.  Then, to maintain availability levels, the installation of contingency services was agreed upon.

“At that time, contingency connections didn’t offer great speed, but they avoided disconnections when other operators’ signals went down, since some areas didn’t count on Cirion’s connections.   Over time, we migrated to a new technology: SD-WAN. This transition, proposed by Cirion, ensures us that everything works timely, securely, with extreme visibility and control of business applications. It also gives us peace of mind to be able to automatically count on high-availability connectivity, leveraging the entire bandwidth available”, explains the spokesman.

Finally, he underscores the flexibility of Cirion’s professionals and their commitment to customers, which allows companies to maintain their regular and optimal operations.  In addition, he highlights the confidence passed on by specialists when solving their issues and listening to their suggestions, as well as the last-generation technology offered.

“The fishing industry is very dynamic, and we need our partners to be nimble, adaptable, and able to provide us with viable and immediate solutions.  Lastly, their constant support and consulting before, during and after the deployment of their solutions, are factors we truly value,” concludes Julio Aquino.

[1] Lumen Latam is now Cirion, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider.

 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 portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region.

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Cirion to deliver 30 Gbps Ethernet speeds to more than 14 markets in Latin America

Cirion to deliver 30 Gbps Ethernet speeds to more than 14 markets in Latin America

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.

Cirion’s 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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