Category: Enterprise networking

Balancing AI’s opportunities and challenges to serve enterprises

AI has taken the technology industry by storm, with enterprises deploying emerging applications to create business value. Amid this shift, operators are leveraging network automation, optical innovation and more to support enterprise AI use cases. Still, the technology ecosystem must balance AI’s opportunities with its challenges. While AI can improve operations, it can also leave […]

How enterprises can evaluate their multi-vendor strategy in the age of AI

As AI/ML implementations accelerate, the stakes are higher for enterprises to secure reliable, scalable connectivity that enables these applications’ real-time functionality. Enterprises are increasingly diversifying their connectivity choices to meet these requirements, with local providers supporting access use cases and wholesale operators providing core connectivity. Many operators are maximizing diversity, scalability, physical security and other […]

Why Wavelengths are critical to the future of enterprise connectivity

Larger enterprises continue to move their applications to the cloud in a backdrop of rapidly evolving needs, fueled by innovation and AI. In doing so, technology teams must consider multiple critical factors that are highly fluid including security, compliance, performance, energy accountability, and cost. Connectivity is a critical dependency which is also evolving. Large enterprises […]

Avoid the middleman: Go direct to the network owner for enterprise connectivity

Working directly with a network owner that deploys, operates, and governs the core network is a win-win for large organizations. This allows enterprises to gain direct access to the capacity, performance, and customer support offered by network owners.

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.

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.  

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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?