Author: Mattias Fridström

Chief Evangelist

Understanding the network underlay

In recent years, network overlay solutions such as cloud applications and SD-WAN have taken the technology industry by storm as enterprises seek to enhance flexibility and scalability. But what about the underlying infrastructure these services depend on? After focusing on overlay services for years, many enterprises are showing a renewed interest in carrier-grade underlay services to meet their substantial connectivity requirements.  

Global disruptors highlight need for ‘collaborative resilience’

Few of us need reminding that we’re living in a dangerous and constantly changing world. From the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East to the nerve-shredding pace of the AI revolution – not to mention the ever-present dark cloud of climate change – tensions and risks abound. Our latest research report, Doubt, delay […]

Defeating DDoS: Together we’re stronger

Our global Internet backbone, AS1299, gives us a unique perspective on the constantly evolving DDoS threat landscape, and the impact it’s having on the wider Internet. Every year we use our own network data to compile our DDoS Threat Landscape Report. This year, our report highlights the main global DDoS trends we observed in 2023 […]

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.

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.

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.

Reducing telecom’s carbon footprint

This article was originally published by The Fast Mode.     Let’s be transparent. While telecom’s new sustainability focus is commendable, our industry is just beginning its collective journey. But, instead of focusing on what we haven’t done, we must focus on what we can do moving forward. Global internet carriers have a responsibility to facilitate […]

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.

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?