May 27, 2024
Cirion and AT&T implement MEF LSO APIs to streamline global network ordering
MEF’s groundbreaking APIs automate seamless network ordering and drive digital customer journeys
MIAMI, FL, May, 27, 2024 – Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America, today announced the successful integration of MEF LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) automation APIs with AT&T, enabling seamless business interactions for ordering network services across the region.
This success is a critical milestone in driving frictionless commerce across the global telecoms industry, removing manual steps, cutting cycle times, and minimizing handling errors. An example is the ability to check Ethernet service availability and pricing in multiple countries using industry-standard APIs.
MEF’s set of standardized LSO APIs enable frictionless inter-provider services across global carriers, offering dynamic and on-demand end-to-end connectivity services, with enhanced interoperability and compatibility among service providers. This new capability drives further collaboration across the industry based on MEF standard APIs, benefitting both buyers and sellers of telecom services by accelerating delivery cycle times.
“Automation of business-to-business interactions with LSO APIs enables service providers to rapidly deliver high-performance/on-demand data services beyond the network footprint of any individual operator,” said Nan Chen, CEO, MEF. “The cooperation among global providers like AT&T and Cirion Technologies is crucial for accelerating the industry’s transformation to dynamic, assured, and certified services across a global federation of automated networks.”
“Accompanying and helping accelerate our customers’ digital transformation is a key imperative of our business´s purpose. The collaboration between Cirion and AT&T will uplift overall service availability and speed to market capability among carriers,” said Gabriel Holgado, Global Sales EVP, Fiber, at Cirion Technologies. “We are committed to interconnect and collaborate with regional and global operators, across the telco business ecosystem, through adopting industry standards, empowering business customers with more efficient and flexible network services.”
“Since AT&T first implemented MEF LSO Sonata APIs five years ago we have seen growing adoption by telecoms service providers in all regions of the World and AT&T’s integration with Cirion extends our automated quoting and ordering capability in Latin America. We are seeing clear benefits in the speed and cost of delivering services driven by the standards-based automation approach which will further improve as we implement with more service providers throughout 2024,” said Aidan Anderson, Global MEF API Program Director at AT&T.
Cirion’s network spans over 90,500 km of submarine and long-haul / metro terrestrial fiber, 18 cable landing stations and five key subsea systems: South American Crossing (SAC), Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC), Pan-American Crossing (PAC), Cook’s Crossing (CC) and Trans-Andean Crossing (TAC). Cirion also has a Tier-1 international IP network (AS 3356) offering direct Internet connectivity to major carriers and ISPs. Together with its network infrastructure, Cirion provides critical, end-to-end connectivity within key Latin American regions and to and from the United States, offering a wide range of capacity, colocation and security services across Latin America.
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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Apr 23, 2024
Cirion enables seamless connections for customers to access Google services
MIAMI, FL, April, 23, 2024 – Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America, has been recognized as a Google Gold Verified Peering Provider (VPP).
Customers can now enjoy streamlined access to high-speed, enterprise-grade connectivity for their Google services via the Cirion network, which spans over 90,500 km of submarine and long-haul / metro terrestrial fiber, 18 cable landing stations and five key subsea systems: South American Crossing (SAC), Mid Atlantic Crossing (MAC), Pan-American Crossing (PAC), Cook’s Crossing (CC) and Trans-Andean Crossing (TAC),offering direct Internet connectivity to major carriers and ISPs. Together with its network infrastructure, Cirion provides critical, end-to-end connectivity within key Latin American regions and to and from the United States, offering a wide range of capacity, colocation and security services across the region.
As a Google Gold Verified Peering Provider, Cirion provides top-tier connectivity to various Google services, including Google Workspace, Google APIs, Google Cloud APIs, Google Cloud VPN, and Google Public IPs. Cirion’s Internet products boast a 99.7% service availability and 99,95% for packet loss SLA, ensuring reliability.
Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies, underscores the accessibility of any Google service through Cirion’s expansive regional network. With presence in over 20 countries, extensive on-net building coverage, and significant peering capacity, Cirion guarantees outstanding performance for Google products.
Google customers can benefit from:
- Rapid deployment and scalability of connectivity through Cirion.
- Reliable access to Google services via high-speed, enterprise-grade internet, ensuring optimal performance.
- Simplified technical aspects of direct peering managed by Cirion.
- Access all Google services.
This partnership promises enhanced experiences for customers through stringent connectivity standards to Google services.
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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Mar 11, 2024
Cirion Technologies strengthens its Data Center business
Nelson Fonseca joins Cirion to augment its executive team
MIAMI, March 11, 2024 – Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure in Latin America, announced the appointment of Nelson Fonseca as President of its Data Center business, effective immediately. Nelson’s appointment reflects the continued growth in demand in the region and Cirion’s commitment to continue to provide its customers with a comprehensive set of colocation and interconnection solutions for their digital needs.
Nelson brings more than 25 years of experience in the digital infrastructure space to Cirion, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cyxtera, a global provider of data center and interconnection services. Nelson was previously a partner at Medina Capital and served as President of Terremark until its $2 billion sale to Verizon in 2012.
Cirion is backed by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets that manages approximately US$61.1 billion in assets and a broad portfolio of global investments in communications and digital infrastructure. Stonepeak’s global data center portfolio includes Cirion in Latin America, Cologix in North America, Digital Edge in Asia and a joint venture with American Tower’s CoreSite in the United States.
“We are excited to welcome Nelson to Cirion, as the Company continues to rapidly scale its data center business across Latin America. Nelson is a dynamic and proven leader that we have known for many years. We look forward to partnering with him at Cirion, a key part of Stonepeak’s global data center franchise,” said Stonepeak Senior Managing Director, Andrew Thomas.
“Nelson is a highly respected leader with more than 25 years of experience in the market and deep relationships throughout the industry. We believe his expertise will be a valuable addition to Cirion’s rapidly growing data center business,” said Facundo Castro, Cirion´s CEO.
“The data center industry is currently experiencing unprecedented growth driven by the continued proliferation of the public cloud and the rapid onset of artificial intelligence. Latin America will benefit greatly from this dynamic and Cirion is in a privileged position to capture this growth due to its broad footprint and leading interconnection ecosystem in the region. I am honored to join the Cirion team at this exciting time to bring digital infrastructure solutions to our hyperscale, service provider and enterprise customers.” said Fonseca.
Cirion recently announced the construction of two purpose-built data centers in Santiago, Chile (SAN2) and Lurín, Peru (LIM2), to serve the rapidly growing cloud demand in the region. Both facilities will initially target 20MW of capacity with further expansion potential. Cirion also finished the previously announced expansion of its data center complex in São Paulo, Brazil (SAO1), increasing total capacity by more than 50%, and has begun the expansions of its data centers in Rio (RIO1) and Buenos Aires (BUE1). These projects ensure continued scalability for Cirion’s customers as cloud adoption and digital demand continues to proliferate rapidly across Latin America.
About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networking, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of promoting Latin America’s progress through technology. Cirion serves more than 5,500 Latin American and multinational clients, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, operators, ISPs, and other leading companies. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of its own networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion in www.ciriontechnologies.com
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Mar 6, 2024
Holding YDUQS modernizes its IT Infrastructure by partnering with Cirion and Oracle
Updating the computing environment, with the migration to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, allows YDUQS to focus on its strategic objectives, while optimizing its costs, offering greater service availability and improving the student experience
São Paulo, March 6, 2024 – YDUQS, one of Brazil’s most important educational groups retained the technological services of Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology to migrate all the production databases of the institution to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer environment, thus updating their business support infrastructure.
YDUQS offers a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, including — Estácio, Ibmec, IDOMED, Wyden and Damásio, covering a wide range of courses and modalities.
In 2020, YDUQS sought to upgrade its IT infrastructure to tackle the growing challenges of the educational market. The institution needed a flexible, scalable and secure solution, which also offered high performance and availability for their critical systems.
Further to a rigorous selection process, Cirion was chosen as a technological partner, responsible for migrating all YDUQS production databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, deploying Universal Credits model, thus ensuring data resiliency by replicating the environment to another Data Center. The company’s new environment hosts business applications and offers greater availability of the service provided to their students, improving response time to their requests.
This solution provides the company with greater stability, flexibility and security, in addition to optimizing costs and allowing the institution to focus on its strategic objectives.
Benefits of the Solution
Migrating to Exadata provided YDUQS with several benefits, including:
- Increased stability and performance: Optimized environment for Oracle Database, resulting in a significant increase in system performance and availability.
- Flexibility and scalability: The solution is highly flexible and scalable, thus enabling a fast and efficient response to your needs.
- Security and reliability: State-of-the-art security and reliability resources to ensure that the institution data will be protected.
- Cost Optimization: Oracle’s solution offers a flexible payment model adjustable to customer needs. The institution pays a monthly recurring price for a set of basic resources (baseline), which guarantees predictability and cost control. In times of high demand, the institution can scale up the OCPUs (central processing units) and pay only for the baseline surplus. This flexibility enables IT cost optimization, paying only for the resources you use.
“YDUQS found the ideal partner in Cirion, since they provide us with daily management support, ensuring Oracle database maintenance and support. Thus our team is able to focus on our apps specifications and in our customers experience (students) sparing the complexities of support infrastructure,” said Rodrigo Coutinho, IT Director for YDUQS. “The new structure is the foundation for our business digital transformation”.
“YDUQS is a great example for the kind of challenges that Cirion can help you solve. Our professionals are trained to act from their first contact to daily operations support, evaluating IT needs based on our customers’ business demands”, said Rodrigo Oliveira, Data Centers Director for Cirion Brazil.
About YDUQS
YDUQS is an educational technology and services group, meant to raise the quality of university education in Brazil. It offers a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, covering a wide range of courses and modalities. It is the only higher education organization in the world with an “AA” ESG rating, awarded in October 2023 by MSCI, a global benchmark in evaluating corporate sustainability practices, placing them in the market top tier among publicly listed companies. Their commitment to sustainable development and the communities they serve is guided by a robust ESG strategy. Today, they are one of the largest educational groups in Brazil, home to some of the country’s most relevant educational institutions. For over five decades, their journey has been defined by a commitment to Brazilian development, the integration of digital culture and innovation, and inclusive education.
Learn more in: http://www.yduqs.com.br
About Cirion
Cirion is a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, 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 more than 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational clients, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, carriers, ISPs, and other leading companies. 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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Feb 26, 2024
Infrastructure as a Service: Cirion extends coverage of its Bare Metal Cloud product to Colombia
Minimum latency, provisioning speed, autonomy of use, and management are a few of the main benefits
Miami, February 26, 2024 – To offer computing capacity in different regions, with minimal latency and integrated into zones, Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, continues to expand its technological infrastructure in Latin America with the implementation of a new region of its Bare Metal Cloud service, a computing alternative for hybrid environments.
Bare Metal Cloud is a computing platform that offers dedicated, high-performance hardware, with self-management and pay-per-use, to host strategic applications. Bare Metal Cloud makes it possible to assign dedicated servers to any of the platform’s customers automatically, providing minimal latency, provisioning speed, flexibility of use, and management. Deployed in Cirion’s main data centers, it guarantees proximity to users and high levels of security.
During 2023, this technology was provided to Cirion’s customers in Brazil in São Paulo (SP), Fortaleza (CE), and the Northeast region, as well as in the cities of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Curitiba (PR).
Cirion is now expanding its Bare Metal Cloud coverage with a new region in its Data Center in Bogotá, Colombia. Throughout 2024, the company plans to continue its expansion to the cities of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico, and Santiago.
“Bare Metal Cloud is a service that offers automated computing capacity and is located close to large centers, so its solutions have very low latency. Additionally, the solution allows for absolute agility, as it is ready to use,” comments Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies.
Other key benefits are:
- Reduces IT solutions’ time to market, with on-demand, real-time, dedicated access to customer servers.
- Offers high-performance computing combined with the flexibility of the cloud.
- Minimizes latency and optimizes security with dedicated servers hosted in Cirion Data Centers close to users and complying with the highest standards of international certifications (TIER III, ISO, ISAE, PCI).
- Complete and remote control of computing environment’s logical configuration.
According to the international consultancy firm IDC, by 2026 40% of infrastructure, security, data, and network offerings will require cloud-based control platforms that enable extensive automation and promise significant reductions in ongoing operational costs.
With Bare Metal Cloud, Cirion offers greater cloud agility for the computing infrastructure through an innovative capacity as a service.
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 America’s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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