Cirion Recognized for Distinguished Leadership in Latin America

Sep 17, 2024

Cirion Recognized for Distinguished Leadership in Latin America

Frost & Sullivan awarded Cirion with the 2024 Latin American Enterprise Services Company of the Year Award

MIAMI, FL, September, 17, 2024 – Frost & Sullivan awarded Cirion Technologies its prestigious Latin American Company of the Year Award for Enterprise Services for its outstanding leadership and innovation. The award recognizes Cirion´s strong overall performance, which continues to set the standard for industry excellence and led to its robust presence in over 20 Latin American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

Cirion’s commitment to customer satisfaction, innovation, and best practices has positioned it as a top enterprise services provider, serving over 5,500 LATAM-based and multinational customers. In recognition of its continuous evolution, Frost & Sullivan also applauded Cirion’s ongoing innovation and enduring leadership in 2022 and 2023.

“Cirion’s extensive solution portfolio and capacity to launch technology-integrated products that meet and exceed customers’ needs are truly commendable,” said Ignacio Perrone, research director for Frost & Sullivan. “Its ability to adapt to evolving market demands and deliver exceptional service is what sets it apart in the LATAM market.”

Cloud applications and security have become very important in today’s digital landscape. According to Cirion’s research, over 90% of information technology professionals agree that cloud apps perform better with fiber connections, and 70.7% of executives consider security when implementing edge storage solutions. To address these needs, Cirion has developed a strong product portfolio that includes data centers, unified communications, security, and telecommunication services.

Latin American enterprises face significant challenges adapting to market demands, making digital transformation imperative for their success. With over 30 years of experience and a robust solution portfolio, Cirion stands out as a preferred provider. Its extensive footprint and unique capabilities enable customers to stay ahead of competitors, ensuring successful business outcomes. The company operates 18 regional data centers with neutrality as a core principle, allowing customers to connect with any network, service, and interconnected data center. Cirion excels with its customer-centric approach and continues to innovate to deliver the best for its customers. Thus, it has secured strategic partnerships with top providers such as Tata Communications and Qwilt.

“Receiving this award from Frost & Sullivan is a testament to our team’s dedication and hard work,” said Emilio Madero, marketing executive vice president for Cirion Technologies. “We are committed to helping our customers navigate their digital transformation journeys with innovative solutions and exceptional service.”

Cirion maintains long-standing customer relationships due to its neutrality, flexibility, high-quality services, and continuous innovation. Frost & Sullivan finds it to be no coincidence that the most prominent players in LATAM’s dominating industries—such as natural resources, financial services, media, entertainment, gaming, health, manufacturing, logistics, higher education, public sector, technology, wholesale, and retail—count Cirion at the core of their operations.

Cirion’s extensive presence in LATAM enables the company to address specific local needs and provide comprehensive services through a robust regional platform. The company’s neutral carrier status allows clients to connect with any network, service, and interconnected data center, offering flexibility and multiple options when choosing the best solutions.

Frost & Sullivan commends Cirion’s strategy, which positions the company as a trusted leader in the LATAM enterprise services market.

This recognition reaffirms Cirion’s commitment to driving digital transformation and delivering unparalleled service across LATAM.

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 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.
Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices.

Award Write Up:

https://www.frost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cirion-Award-Write-Up.pdf

About Cirion:

Cirion is a leading pan-regional digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of colocation, cloud infrastructure, and terrestrial and subsea fiber network services. 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. The Company 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 Enhances Customer Security with new Cloud DDoS Protection Service

Sep 9, 2024

Cirion Enhances Customer Security with new Cloud DDoS Protection Service

Cirion Technologies Partners with Radware to Strengthen Cloud Security Services throughout Latin America

MIAMI, FL, Sept. 09, 2024 – Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America, today announced it has entered into a managed security service provider (MSSP) agreement with Radware, a global leader in application security and delivery solutions for multi-cloud environments. This strategic partnership enables Cirion to offer Radware’s industry-leading Cloud DDoS Protection Service to its customers across the region.

Key Benefits for Cirion’s Customers:

Advanced Network Protection: Cirion’s commitment to innovation and anticipation drives its focus on delivering enhanced security services. By leveraging Radware’s Cloud DDoS Protection Service, Cirion ensures automatic protection, faster mitigation, and improved accuracy for its customers.
Customized MSSP Model: Radware’s unique and customized MSSP model allows Cirion to swiftly enter the market while meeting the diverse DDoS protection needs of small businesses, enterprises, and downstream internet service providers.
Integrated Solution: Cirion also offers Radware’s Cloud Application Protection Services, which include web application firewall, bot management, and API and client-side protection. Customers can manage these services seamlessly through a single pane of glass, helping to reduce operational costs and prevent zero-day attacks.

Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at

Cirion Technologies, emphasizes the excellence in service and support that Radware provides. As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, organizations increasingly rely on hosted security services to safeguard their networks and applications.

Radware’s AI-powered Cloud DDoS Protection Service surgically blocks malicious attacks without disrupting legitimate traffic. It adapts defenses based on specific attackers, maintaining network availability, even during layer 7 Web DDoS attacks.

Today, Cirion stands out as one of the few Pan Latin American networks, spanning 20 countries and serving over 5,500 customers with a wide range of capacity, colocation and security services across Latin America. Additionally, the company operates 18 owned carrier-neutral data centers throughout the region and maintains over 95 direct connections to carriers and service providers.

“We look forward to an expanded relationship with Cirion, helping them open new revenue streams while delivering state-of-the-art Cloud DDoS Protection for organizations across Latin America,” said Arie Simchis, Radware’s regional director in Latin America. “As cyberattacks increase in sophistication and grow exponentially in number, more organizations are opting for hosted security services and entrusting leading providers like Cirion with protecting their networks and applications.”

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 5,500 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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Cirion to Expand its Existing Data Center Footprint in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aug 1, 2024

Cirion to Expand its Existing Data Center Footprint in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Strategic land acquisition located immediately adjacent to Cirion’s existing RIO1 facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to support a new 60 MW state-of-the-art, carrier-neutral, energy efficient data center

New data center will provide critical colocation capacity to service growing regional demand needs

MIAMI, FL, August, 1, 2024 – Cirion Technologies (the “Company”), a pan-Latin American leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, today announced that the Company has acquired a 15,000 square meter parcel of land, located immediately adjacent to its existing interconnection-dense data center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (“RIO1”), to support the expansion of its data center footprint in the region. Cirion is backed by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets with more than $71.2 billion in assets under management and an extensive portfolio of communications and digital infrastructure investments globally.

The new parcel of land, which is located in the São Cristovão neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, will support a new up to 60 megawatt carrier-neutral data center facility (“RIO2”). RIO2 will have access to a business-friendly environment and renewable energy sources, an already established ecosystem with more than fifty network and cloud providers, diverse metro and long-haul connectivity to major cities and tech hubs in the region and be in close proximity to international subsea cable networks to deliver minimal latency between Latin America and other regions. RIO2 is expected to be ready for service in 2026.

Once constructed, RIO2 will mark Cirion’s fourth data center asset in Brazil, and will be directly connected through primary, redundant dark fiber routes to the rest of Cirion’s Brazilian platform. The Brazilian platform currently comprises three data center campuses in São Paulo (“SAO1”), Rio de Janeiro (“RIO1”), and Curitiba (“CUR1”), which are strategically located in secure, easily accessible regions, and close to primary business districts, enabling strong logistical and operational agility. RIO2 will also be integrated into Cirion’s broader carrier-neutral platform comprising 18 data centers across Latin America. Through its platform, Cirion provides colocation, cross connectivity, and disaster recovery capabilities to support the demand needs of various hyperscalers, carriers, content providers, and enterprises, and customers can connect directly to more than 100 network service providers and to key public cloud providers operating in the region via peer-to-peer connectivity.

“This land acquisition supports the continued expansion of our data center campus in Rio de Janeiro, highlighting another important milestone in our expansion journey to grow our platform of low-latency, interconnected data centers”, said Facundo Castro, CEO for Cirion Technologies.

Nelson Fonseca, President of Cirion’s Data Center business unit, stated, “RIO2 will be a state-of-the-art, carrier-neutral, energy-efficient data center with direct fiber connectivity to Cirion’s existing ecosystem from day 1, providing interconnect-oriented colocation capacity to the region’s rapidly growing data center market”.

The acquisition of this land and development of RIO2 complements Cirion’s current data center developments in Santiago, Chile (“SAN2”) and Lima, Peru (“LIM2”), as well as the recently completed expansion of its data center campus in SAO1. These projects ensure continued scalability for Cirion’s customers as digital transformation and cloud adoption continues to proliferate rapidly in Latin America.

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Cirion enters the Global Ethernet Provider LEADERBOARD 2023

Jul 10, 2024

Cirion enters the Global Ethernet Provider LEADERBOARD 2023

Cirion advanced from the Challenge Tier and ranks #7 on the Global Ethernet LEADERBOARD

MIAMI, FL, July, 10, 2024 – Vertical Systems Group recently announced that seven companies achieved a rank on the year-end 2023 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD, among which Cirion Technologies, who ranked in position #7.

Vertical Systems Group’s LEADERBOARDs are the industry’s foremost benchmarks for measuring market leadership for Carrier Ethernet Services, Carrier Managed SD-WAN Services, Wavelength Services and Business Fiber Lit Buildings.

Ranking among the mayor Global Ethernet Service Providers is a major recognition for Cirion for we are focused in investing in a 100-gigabit metro network across the region, that equips our next-generation architecture with swifter Ethernet speeds.

Cirion has been 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 and Miami (US).

The company today has access to speeds of 30 Gbps for Ethernet services in the following cities: Miami (US), Buenos Aires (Argentina), São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Bogotá (Colombia), Lima (Peru), Mexico DF, Monterrey and Tijuana (Mexico) and Quito (Ecuador), among others.

“Our customers want and need faster, more accessible bandwidth to support technologies such as AI, Internet of Things, augmented reality, voice and video apps”, said Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies. “Cirion’s network investments will enable our Platform to deliver the apps and data businesses need.”

Vertical Systems Group industry benchmark for multinational Ethernet network market presence ranks companies that hold a 4% or higher share of billable retail ports at sites outside of their respective home countries.

“The geographic expansion of the Global Ethernet market continued in 2023, while several domestic markets flattened,” said Rick Malone, Principal of Vertical Systems Group. “Cirion ascended from the Challenge Tier to rank #7 in our Global Provider segment following key acquisition of Lumen´s LATAM assets in 2022”.

Highlights

Cirion moves into the #7 and final position on the Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD, advancing from the Challenge Tier. The company acquired Lumen’s LATAM assets in 2022.
The market for global Ethernet ports expanded as enterprises continue to add sites to their existing networks.
The latest research shows low net new growth for Global Provider Ethernet ports in 2023, offset by customer upgrades to gigabit speed Ethernet services to support cloud connectivity, AI workloads, plus other higher bandwidth applications.
DIA additions outpaced other Ethernet services, as enterprises transition to hybrid SD-WAN architectures worldwide.
Cirion´s Ethernet solutions safely connect Data Centers, clouds, premises, VPNs and LANs with dynamic flexibility and dedicated connections performed on our scalable network.

Read original Vertical Systems Group press release here: https://www.verticalsystems.com/2023/03/06/ye2022-global-ethernet-leaderboard/

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 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com

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Cirion presents DC Connect, the Solution for Data Center Connectivity

Jul 1, 2024

Cirion presents DC Connect, the Solution for Data Center Connectivity

With more than 160 interconnected data centers, Cirion is positioned as a leader in instant connectivity between data centers in key cities in the Americas

MIAMI, FL, July 01, 2024 – Cirion Technologies, a provider of digital infrastructure and technology, announces the launch of its new DC Connect service, an innovative solution designed to facilitate connectivity between multiple data centers.

DC Connect is a comprehensive platform that enables the secure and efficient transfer of data between geographically dispersed sites. This solution is critical for businesses and organizations that operate in multiple locations and need a reliable connection to ensure business continuity and synchronization of their data.

Cirion’s DC Connect Features:

Wide Coverage: With more than 160 interconnected data centers in more than 60 cities, Cirion provides the greatest connectivity to key data centers in Latin America, including the NAP of the Americas in Miami.
Proprietary Fiber: Connectivity is based on proprietary fiber, previously deployed and operated by Cirion, ensuring a high level of reliability and security.
Quick Activation: DC Connect offers rapid activation of the service throughout our coverage area, allowing for agile and efficient implementation.
Variety of Services: Customers can access Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dark Fiber solutions (based on availability), tailored to their specific needs.
Flexibility: DC Connect transport platform is flexible and adapts to changing market demands, enabling efficient scalability.
Private and Dedicated Connectivity: The fiber used is highly reliable, private and dedicated, ensuring the security of the transferred data.
Access to Public and Private Clouds: DC Connect provides access to all major Public and Private Clouds, making it easy to integrate with cloud platforms.
DC-to-Cloud: Customers can also implement a DC-to-Cloud solution, including direct connection to cloud platforms such as AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Interconnect, Oracle Fast Connect, or IBM Direct Link.

Key Benefits of DC Connect:

Secure connectivity: DC Connect offers secure connectivity options, using advanced protocols to protect the integrity of the information transferred.
Redundancy: The solution is designed with redundancy to ensure continuous data availability, even in failure situations.
Resource Optimization: DC Connect maximizes efficiency by enabling data transfer between data centers quickly and reliably.

In summary, DC Connect is the largest regional interconnection system and represents an innovative strategy to leverage regional data centers, minimizing operational costs and maximizing the efficient use of enterprise resources. By offering a comprehensive and reliable solution, Cirion is positioned as a leader in connectivity between data centers.

To learn more about DC Connect and how this solution can benefit your organization, visit our website: https://www.ciriontechnologies.com/en-us/data-centers/dc-connect/

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 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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