Arelion
Global connectivity service provider
IP Transit
As the world's #1 ranked global IP backbone, we ensure a direct route between content and end-users. AS1299, our global Autonomous System, is a network built for reliability and uptime. With our IP customer base accounting for more than half of all Internet routes and a highly evolved Tier 1 peering ecosystem, your traffic is given a clear path to its destination.
Avoid network congestion
- We built our backbone on our own fiber network, with almost unlimited capacity - avoiding congestion and allowing for future growth. We have almost three decades of experience in providing the world’s biggest content distributors, ISPs, services, and hyperscalers with high-bandwidth, mission-critical IP transit capacity.
Carrier-grade IP transit
- Our BGP knowledge and expertise, together with formidable backbone capacity reserves, ensure cost-effective connectivity in the volatile and unpredictable Internet traffic environment. Our SLA offer adds carrier-grade service quality to the flexibility of Internet connectivity.
- Using our global IP backbone, we offer three route options:
- Global Connect
- Euro Connect
- Content Connect
Access to the shortest Internet service paths
- We own and operate our global fiber backbone – stretching 70,000km across Europe, North America, and Asia, ensuring fast, uninterrupted paths between more than 320+ PoPs (Points of Presence) throughout 120 cities worldwide. We interconnect eyeball networks to content networks with minimal hops, by providing access to an extensive number of direct connections and the full global routing table.
Smart IP-VPN
Connect your business locations with IP-VPN to communicate faster, easier, and more securely with the reach of our global MPLS network. With IP-VPN, a dedicated fixed connection combines several local networks into a single virtual private network (VPN) to meet all of your future network demands.
Highly secure virtual private network
- Sharing sensitive data across your organization requires a network solution that connects your offices robustly and securely. We provide you with dedicated connectivity that carries your encrypted traffic over private connections to add an extra layer of security.
IPVPN with extra flexibility
- We offer enhanced options to extend service ordering functions to your premises using our off-net service extension (Arelion On-Prem). You can add locations, change contract terms, and conveniently order other Arelion services. For example, you could order Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) to combine your Internet Access with your Intranet - ideal for modern digital workplaces.
Bandwidth management using QoS
- Your organizational users depend on constant access to business-critical resources, tools, and applications. With Quality of Service (QoS), you can control the traffic flow from an office location and prioritize VPN traffic over regular internet traffic. You can segment your tra
Cloud Connect
Connect to the cloud with the world's number one ranked IP backbone, ensuring a secure, dedicated, and scalable connection directly to AWS, Google, Azure, Oracle, and IBM.
Controlled cloud connectivity
- Use our global backbone to bring the cloud right into your network - with a private and dedicated connection that bypasses the public internet. Gain more control of your bandwidth, with higher security, reliability, and lower latency.
Flexible pricing options
- We offer flexible pricing options to accommodate your changing bandwidth needs. You have the freedom to modify contract terms at short notice and you configure your connection using our online portal with simple purchasing options.
Reach multiple clouds at scale
- Use a single port to connect with one or multiple cloud providers and scale your cloud usage by increasing or reducing your bandwidth, on-demand.
Service coverage
- Cloud Connect is your gateway to an ecosystem that connects you to the major cloud providers. Our partnerships with the leading cloud providers ensure extensive global reach to AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and IBM.
SD-WAN
Productivity in today’s world ties closely to the flexibility given to network users accessing SaaS applications and Cloud platforms that sit outside the traditional network perimeter. For networking team leaders, it’s an exciting time to rethink the WAN strategy. Finally, a new wave of innovation using the principles of software-defined technologies has reached the networking world.
Cloud-scale virtual and physical architecture on equal terms
- Our SD-WAN service is optimized for cloud-scale networking, for both the Overlay and the Underlay - enabling a stable and scalable solution. Arelion operates the world’s best-connected internet backbone that directly connects almost 65% of global internet routes.
- Our backbone is the industry’s first full-scale, 400GE-ready, using advanced cloud-scale routing technology. Enterprises can attach an underlay that will more effectively route network traffic with better pathways and minimal hops to business-critical SaaS applications and cloud platforms.
Deploy networks faster
- SD-WAN accelerates operational processes, like deploying, modifying, or disconnecting network services. Arelion will provision the SD-WAN service remotely. We will enable each router to be authenticated and configured with the near zero-touch deployment of the network setup.
Solve the application visibility problem
- Network managers gain a complete view of the connectivity performance of business-critical applications – with better visibility to manage key performance metrics like Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and set the baseline for network automation for fault isolation and remediation.
DDoS mitigation
Protect your network with continuous, host-level protection against DDoS attacks. We offer cutting-edge DDoS mitigation technology across our global IP backbone, ensuring scalable, worldwide protection.
Mitigation with superior precision
- Our service applies surgical mitigation techniques to mitigate attacks automatically. Malicious traffic is dropped already within our backbone before it reaches your Internet connection, ensuring that only legitimate traffic passes through.
Scale to the number of managed objects
- We provide a high-capacity solution throughout our global IP backbone that can be scaled to add more Managed Objects (MOs) and mitigation capacity to support your growing protection needs.
Flexible pricing mechanisms
- Our pricing model is designed in accordance with your risk profile, making it more economical than in-house edge solutions.
Direct Internet Access
Secure and stable direct internet access using the world's best-connected internet backbone network: dedicated, scalable bandwidth and continuous access with a carrier-grade SLA.
Guaranteed internet bandwidth
- Organizational productivity requires greater use of SaaS applications and online tools that are accessible across the internet. DIA will provide you with uncontended bandwidth - a contention ratio of 1:1, ensuring that your bandwidth is 100% reserved for you.
Symmetrical upload and download speed
- DIA provides you with symmetrical upload and download speeds up to 10Gbps. Your allocated bandwidth is dedicated to you and will not slow down, even during peak traffic periods.
Continuous data feeds across the internet
- Whether you are handling continuous data feeds or running around-the-clock operations, you can depend on DIA as a consistently high-performing service. Our Carrier-Grade service level agreement (SLA) is intended to support “always-on” application and business demands.
Service coverage
- DIA is available across our entire network footprint, to both on-net and off-net customers.
Wavelengths
Can your network deliver today and scale for tomorrow? Our Wavelength services, built using DWDM technology, could be the solution you need. Dedicated, high-capacity transport designed to carry high volumes of traffic across long-haul stretches.
DWDM for high data volumes
- When your network is under more pressure to carry high volumes of data across long distances, DWDM is the perfect technology for the job. Multiple wavelengths of light (or colors) are used to transmit data over the same optical fiber to efficiently utilize your infrastructure.
Dedicated point-to-point connections
- Our Wavelength services support diverse, bandwidth-intensive applications like video, voice, and storage across your global sites - with access to more capacity when needed. The simplicity of wavelengths makes your network more versatile and efficient when deploying point-to-point connections between remote sites and data centers.
400GE wavelengths and beyond
- We were the first to offer 100GE wavelengths on both sides of the Atlantic and are now offering 400GE services in certain markets. You can choose single links or a redundant ring network topology to build your own network for connecting key sites. Wavelengths 400 GE is perceived very positively on the market in terms of a total cost of ownership (TCO) according to the latest Frost & Sullivan report.
Service coverage
- From fast-growing startups to established fortune 500 businesses – you can entrust our wavelength services as the backbone of your business. Our extensive network connectivity offers you access to wavelength services across international borders.
Ethernet
WAN evolution can be a challenge. Our Ethernet services help you untangle your network using tried-and-tested technology to deliver scalable connectivity with the flexibility of EVPL and ELAN topologies to simplify your network. Ethernet is a private network connection with a high level of security and bandwidths from 10Mbps to 10Gbps.
From LAN to WAN
- Take the speed and simplicity of your Local Area Network (LAN) into your Wide Area Network (WAN), to support your evolving business needs. Configure and shape your network with different topologies using our EVPL and ELAN services. Our Ethernet Services also underpin other solutions we offer, such as Smart IP-VPN and Cloud Connect.
High-speed connectivity
- With Ethernet, you can rely on high-speed connectivity to distribute your critical data. We guarantee speeds of up to 10Gbps, for the topology you choose; easy to scale up and always able to meet your growing capacity demands.
Well-defined service attributes
- Our Ethernet services are MEF certified and are underpinned by our high-capacity, top-ranked MPLS backbone, and highly-skilled Operation team. We guarantee the service quality from the ground up so that you can benefit from the carrier-grade Ethernet quality.