The Arelion blog

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

Community-Triggered DDoS Mitigation

At Arelion, we understand the importance of security on the network to keep our customers’ businesses safe and connected on a global scale. As a result, we strive to prepare our customers with unique insights into the evolving threat landscape through our annual DDoS Threat Landscape Report, based on data from our #1 ranked global […]

Arelion’s network evolution

It has now been more than a year since Arelion began its new life, leaving behind the Telia Carrier brand and facing the market as an independent entity. Over that year we have seen the company start to make more aggressive network investments, moving into new parts of the world, such as Mexico. With us today to give his perspective on Arelion’s network infrastructure, its future, and the state of the broader network infrastructure marketplace is Mattias Fridström, Arelion’s Chief Evangelist.

Getting you closer than ever to your network

At Arelion, the customer experience we deliver has never stopped at the performance of the network, how easily a support ticket can be submitted or how we deal with that request.  We created the MyArelion portal to be much more than that. As it has grown, MyArelion has become a one-stop shop giving immediate access […]

Turning the energy crisis into opportunity

With energy prices escalating across the globe, most businesses are having to pay more for the energy they use. The impact of that on businesses is clear: weakening margins, reducing their ability to invest, and in some cases a need to streamline in order to survive. But how are those escalating prices impacting the executives at organizations?

Employee Spotlight: Q&A with Sophie Reinius, Group CFO at Arelion

Among telecom’s many moving parts, there is strength in numbers. Sophie Reinius, Group CFO, joined Arelion in November 2021 to drive our financial strategy. We spoke with Sophie to learn more about her experience at Arelion and how her financial vision helps Arelion become more agile as we continue our global network expansion.

Changing the way we build networks

The Covid-19 not only demonstrated the critical importance telecommunications infrastructure has on every individual, businesses, and society in general but also the need for telecommunications networks to be agile, cost effective and scalable in a way that we never imagined before.

Enabling sustainable networking in Europe and the US

Arelion is building sustainable networks for service providers, content providers and enterprises at every tier in the global Internet backbone, benefiting our customers and the environment in the process.

Segment routing for low-latency enterprise Ethernet

To satisfy the need for low-latency, diverse Ethernet services on a global scale, we’ve implemented segment routing based on the lowest latency paths across our multi-vendor network at no added cost to our enterprise customers.

Lifting the lid on sustainability at Arelion

If just the mention of the word “sustainability” sends your eyes rolling into the back of your head, it won’t be because you don’t care, but because you hear the word A L-O-T. Our industry talks at length about what it needs to do to meet its sustainability goals, and even more is said by […]

Time to ride the wavelengths?

Today the networks that make up the public internet, including our own, enable more traffic than ever before to traverse the globe to its destination.  The low latency, high bandwidth, and reliable Ethernet/MPLS based networks make it easy for companies to create the connections they need to reach customers and service providers they need, such […]

Women in telecoms career stories

In our industry fewer than 1 in 3 of the current STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce is female. This is something we want to help change! At Arelion, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB) is an ongoing commitment and one of the areas we’re focusing on is establishing a gender balance within our company. […]

Arelion Messaging Specialist, Fabio Bottan to speak at RSA ‘23

  “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” -Steven Covey, author best known for the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Arelion is proud to announce that Fabio Bottan, Senior Messaging Specialist at Arelion, will speak at RSA […]