The Arelion blog

Our thoughts and deeds. From industry trends to geeky network stuff.

Arelion CEO Daniel Kurgan looks ahead

In this interview, Arelion CEO Daniel Kurgan talks about our expansion in the enterprise market, our investment strategy for 2024, the impact of AI in the telecoms industry, the consolidation in the European fiber infrastructure market, and much more.

The carrier guide to 2024

For the 7th consecutive year, Arelion’s Chief Evangelist Mattias Fridström shares his annual predictions on industry trends and disruptive technologies with Submarine Telecoms Forum.

Serving enterprise cloud needs

Public, private, hybrid and multi – the enterprise cloud journey becomes complex as many internet carriers and colocation providers each offer various connection options to an increasingly intricate cloud ecosystem. Amid these many options, two concepts will hold true as enterprises continue to seek cloud transformation in 2024.

Reinventing Internet networks

Internet carriers are also responsible for meeting the accelerating networking demands of hyperscalers and Big Tech amid increasing digitalization, AI applications, cloud services and more. As a result, the need for scalable, high-capacity bandwidth and secure, low-latency connectivity will persist regardless of 2024’s economic challenges.

Can solar power sustain the Internet backbone?

Experts predict that by 2025 the Internet backbone will use 20% of all the world’s electricity, with energy consumption growing rapidly as more devices and data centers are brought online. When it comes to powering the Internet backbone, we need to ensure that we use the right kind of electricity and save where we can.

Ethernet still rules at 50

1973 was a pretty busy year:  The US Senate Watergate Committee began its work, the first mobile phone call was made in Manhattan, Paul McCartney released the album “Band on the Run” and the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, to name but a few key historical events. But at Xerox […]

How TSBs will support global enterprises in 2024

Technology companies are contending with rising costs, a difficult macroeconomic climate, and geopolitical turmoil that threatens the reliability and security of global networks. As these realities persist in the coming year, enterprises will increasingly turn to Technology Service Brokers (TSBs) for help in finding, buying, and managing technology and connectivity services.

Optical innovation as an economic opportunity

Looking ahead to 2024, the telecom industry has the opportunity to adopt a more frugal approach to spending. However, these financial challenges present promising prospects for advancing large-scale optical innovation, which is already underway.

Employee Spotlight: Scott Nichols, CCO

Since its inception, Arelion has leveraged its true differentiator to build trust with customers and succeed in the connectivity business: world-class customer experience. We spoke to our Chief Commercial Officer, Scott Nichols to learn about his vision for Arelion’s next growth stage and the vital role of internal transformation to provide excellent customer experience in today’s connectivity market.

30 years: Wild west to wild ride!

Ever since Arelion’s fiber network, AS1299 was born in 1993, it has been a critical part of the Internet’s core infrastructure. In this blog, Arelion’s Chief Evangelist, Mattias Fridström reminiscences about the technologies, milestones and odd things that happened during these 30 years.

Data is queen

Just like the queen is the strongest chess piece, data is the strongest tool for optimizing networks to handle society’s connectivity demands. When derived from real-time network analysis, data provides us with a comprehensive understanding of network topology changes, security threats, performance metrics, energy consumption levels, capacity utilization, and much more.

Converging IP and optical network layers

Recently, Arelion took another step in converging our IP and optical layers by adding Cisco 400G Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Bright Optical Modules in our production IP backbone. The first regional reach deployment spans 675 kilometers between Stockholm and Copenhagen over a third-party Optical Open Line System (O-OLS).