Mar 27, 2023
Cirion Technologies strengthens its leadership team in the Andean region
María Claudia Rey joins the Cirion team in Bogotá, Colombia.
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, March 27, 2023 To strengthen its regional leadership team, Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, today announced the appointment of María Claudia Rey as Vice President of Sales for the Andean Cluster Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
María Claudia takes on the position with responsibility for developing, leading, and executing Cirion’s commercial strategy for the Andean Region, coupled with the expansion of its infrastructure, products, and services to support its customers’ ongoing digital transformation and value creation.
María Claudia has a degree in Economics from Javeriana University, is specialized in Corporate Finance at Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración CESA and holds a PDD from INALDE. She has over 25 years of experience leading high performance teams in several companies and has worked many years in leadership positions as President and Vice President of sales and customers, in technology companies such as Links, Atento, Compuredes, Arus, and most recently as commercial and business Vice President at PROTECCIÓN S.A., a pension and severance fund in Colombia.
Married for over 24 years to Felipe, María Claudia has two children Santiago and María José and is passionate about family, friends, and sports, highlighting her preference for marathons and a healthy lifestyle. She is part of the womens community on Boards of Directors, and she is certain that gender equality strengthens both women and organizations.
“This new challenge is a privilege for me, even more so in a company with Cirion’s track record in Latin America. In an industry that constantly adapts to the evolution of new technologies, Cirion innovates, gets ahead, and is dedicated to delivering the best customer experience, supported by a professional, talented, and passionate team that understands the needs of organizations in Latin America. I am very happy to join this team and I am confident in the success of this new professional stage in my life,” comments María Claudia.
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.
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Mar 16, 2023
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.
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Feb 28, 2023
Infrastructure as a Service: Cirion Technologies presents their new product Bare Metal Cloud
Minimal latency, provisioning speed, autonomy in management and use, and fixed prices in Reais are some of the main benefits
São Paulo, February 28, 2023 – Cirion Technologies, a digital infrastructure and technology provider is expanding its technological infrastructure in Brazil, by launching a new product Bare Metal Cloud. This resource enables any platform customer to allocate a single (dedicated) server, thus providing minimal latency, provisioning speed, autonomy in use and management.
Initially this technology will be available for Cirions customers with computational needs in São Paulo, as from March, and in Fortaleza (CE) and the Northeast region as from April.
Bare Metal Cloud service offers automated computational capacity, next to the big centers allowing your solutions to benefit from very low latency. Additionally this solution enables absolute agility since it is ready to user, says Rodrigo Oliveira, Data Center, Cloud & Security Director for Cirion Brazil.
Other benefits to highlight:
- Remote control of the equipment,
- Fully exclusive customer dedicated resource;
- Provisioning speed;
- Flexible configuration;
- Possibility of integration with legacy systems;
- Security provided by Cirion’s Data Centers, with the highest international certification standards, including Tier III of the Uptime Institute.
With Bare Metal Cloud, Cirion brings greater cloud agility to computing infrastructure through an innovative as a service capability.
According to IDC, cloud consumption by the Telecom segment should grow 32.2% average in IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) over the next 5 years. Furthermore, virtualization of telecommunications networks is one of the main trends identified this year for Brazil.
Cirion will expand this service in Brazil and Latin America throughout 2023, aimed at offering computational capacity in different regions with minimal latency, integrated into zones.
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.
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Feb 5, 2023
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
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Dec 15, 2022
Elections 2022: Internet Providers Deliver Digital Infrastructure
Cirion Technologies was one of the ISPs providing internet connectivity, SD-WAN, and cybersecurity solutions
São Paulo, December 15, 2022 – The second ballot of 2022 Elections totaled more than 124MM people going to the polls, as reported by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE -for its acronym in Portuguese-) According to the Federal Justice body, Brazil is the fourth largest democracy and owns the major computerized election worldwide, since all voting is done through electronic ballot boxes. This makes our country a world benchmark in electoral security.
This voting mechanism has existed for more than 25 years and was fully computerized in 2000, when all Brazilian municipalities began to use electronic ballot boxes during elections, according to the TSE.
During the voting period, the ballot box operates in isolation and without any connection to data networks, however, after the counting closes, connectivity and security technologies are necessary to guarantee the aggregate results are conveyed.
The technological breakthroughs raised the need of creating solutions meant to guarantee information integrity and security in this verification process, mainly for fraud and cyberattacks prevention. These technologies are available through internet providers, who work to fight and minimize potential risks. Cirion Technologies, leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, was one of the companies working in tandem with the Regional Electoral Courts (TRE) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to guarantee security of elections in the Federal District and other States: Ceará, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo.
During the first and second rounds, Cirion focused on network security, Internet and SD-WAN solutions, thereby enabling data transmission and long-distance network management.
“To guarantee the voting process security and combat any type of potential threat online, our security and network team created an action plan to monitor and act immediately, in the event of contingencies, several days before the election,” said Danilo Cereza, Sales Director in Cirion Brazil.
According to a Black Lotus Labs report, Telecommunications, Software and Technology, and Government were the most affected terminals by cyberattacks. This implies that internet evolution not only calls for more data protection. The providers role to fight against potential threats, primarily upon situations like a presidential election is as well highlighted.
This is why being prepared to combat any risk immediately becomes essential. During the elections, Cirion experts conducted a thorough monitoring and follow-up, to increase security of the process and, fortunately, there were no contingencies, continued the executive.
Cirion was also responsible for providing connectivity to the worldwide web. Initially, 2 Gbps accesses were available, however a 10 Gbps upgrade was made in advance to the first electoral round, because of the large volume of access to the services provided by the TSE. According to the TSE, the internet speed allowed voters to know which candidates were elected within 3 hours further to the close of voting. In countries where voting is still on paper, total vote counting can take days before results are released.
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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