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Employee Spotlight: Lauren Duerr, Director of Enterprise Sales – North America

Building relationships with global enterprises is critical to our North American market expansion, but we need seasoned sales leaders to reach that goal. We spoke with Lauren Duerr, our Director of Enterprise Sales in North America, about her background, her perspective on Arelion’s culture and her vision of our go-to-market enterprise strategy in North America.

Employee Spotlight: Gene Cheatham, Senior Solutions Architect

As Arelion increasingly serves enterprises through carrier-grade connectivity solutions, we’re highlighting Gene Cheatham, Senior Solutions Architect, Channel & Enterprise, for our latest employee spotlight.

Third Stevie Award for Customer Service

Arelion has achieved another outstanding milestone by winning the Bronze Stevie® Award for Customer Service Department of the Year. This recognition underscores our unwavering dedication to delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Employee Spotlight: Jon Schlee, Channel Director – West

Our new Channel Director – West, Jon Schlee shares details about his background, his perspective on Arelion’s culture, and his vision of our continued Channel expansion.

The tech world’s best kept secret: carrier-grade connectivity

The benefits of a resilient, fast and secure network backbone are well known to network operators and their wholesale customers. What’s less well known is that enterprises can also go direct to the source of network provisioning and management. The result: telecoms carrier-grade benefits at a lower cost and without the need for third parties.

Sustainability in focus at top political event

In 1968, Sweden’s soon-to-be Prime Minister, Olof Palme gave an impromptu speech in Almedalen, an area in medieval town Visby, located on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Since then, ‘Almedalen Week’ – a democratic meeting place for everyone, held at the end of June each year – has grown into the most […]

Gold-tier enterprise connectivity to Google Cloud

Arelion was recently awarded a Gold-Tier Verified Peering Provider (VPP) badge from Google, recognizing our ability to provide enterprises with diverse connectivity to Google Cloud services. The VPP is a Google-recognized badging program for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that offers Google Cloud customers a simplified alternative to direct peering. As a Google VPP, Arelion empowers […]

Arelion’s Channel Program awarded for the fifth consecutive year

Arelion has won ChannelVision’s Visionary Spotlight Award for “Most Responsive Supplier Team” for the fifth consecutive year, highlighting our continued commitment to ensuring world-class customer experiences through our Conflict-Free Channel Program.

Employee Spotlight: Isabelle Couturier Philippe, Head of Network Development and Project Management

Our Network Development teams are crucial to Arelion’s industry-leading quality, so we’re interviewing Isabelle Couturier Philippe, Head of Network Development and Project Management, for our employee spotlight series.

Awarded for network performance and customer service

We’re proud to announce that Arelion is a ‘Midsized Service Provider’ winner of the ATLANTIC-ACM 2024 Global Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Awards in no less than four categories: Brand, Customer Service, Data Value, and Network Performance.

Building a career in building networks

Sumita Gupta Sharma didn’t set out from India with a bachelor’s degree in economics planning on building telecom networks, but today — with nearly two decades of experience — she has built a kind of home in the industry. 

Employee Spotlight: Sandra Klackenborn, Head of Sustainability

In light of Earth Day 2024, we’re highlighting Sandra Klackenborn, our new Head of Sustainability, whom we hired last month. Telecommunications faces a critical juncture as network operators work to reduce emissions and meet recently established sustainability goals. However, sustainable networking encompasses myriad focus areas, necessitating organizational cooperation to reduce telecom’s environmental impact.