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Connecting a brighter future

Arelion is a leading light in global connectivity and we've been keeping the world connected for nearly three decades. Today, the world's largest operators, content providers and enterprises rely on our #1 ranked global Internet backbone, AS1299, for their premium data and voice services.

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The world's #1 Internet backbone
Award winning customer care
Customers in 125 countries
"Receiving good customer care from our partners is an important part of delivering the best music experience (...) to millions of users every day. Arelion Customer Support Center always responds quickly to issues and acts professionally. We are really happy that when something happens, we can count on Arelion CSC to do their best to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
The Network Engineering team
"It’s vital and business critical for us as a global organization to have a fast and well-functioning (...) IT environment, regardless of whether we use our customer-located applications or cloud services across different countries and locations. Arelion’s solution works as well in Manila as it does at our head office in Stockholm, suiting our needs like hand-in-glove.”
Björn Wide, Head of IT & Security
"Arelion delivers a superior customer experience, technical excellence, and true value to our business.” 
The Network Engineering team

The network of networks—

Serving customers in 125 countries, our 70,000 km fiber backbone spans North America, Europe and Asia. Our PoPs give you a direct route to the world’s best content and billions of end-users. Fiber-up control of our network with cutting-edge optical and IP technology deliver the scalability you need, whenever you need it.

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An effortless experience—

At Arelion, our award-winning customer experience lies at the heart of everything we do – from rapid fault resolution to transparent communication, we work hard to deliver the best customer care in the business. We’re committed to making your experience so good, you don’t even know we’re here.
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Popular Products & Services

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IP Transit

BGP Transit to Internet content and billions of end-users, with the world’s best-connected backbone, AS1299. 
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Wavelengths

Dedicated, high volume data transport with DWDM technology.
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Cloud Connect

Direct access to your cloud with a dedicated connection to the major Cloud Service Providers, AWS, Google, Azure, Oracle, and IBM.
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Ethernet

Configure and shape your network with different topologies using our EVPL and ELAN services.
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Read our customer stories

Customer Story
Financial services

Multi-cloud adoption leverages the unique value proposition of different cloud providers. To do this successfully, though, complex connectivity solutions towards the various cloud providers should be avoided. Only then can best possible infrastructure for developers and DevOps teams be realized.
Customer Story
G-Core Labs

For the most demanding end-users in the world, G-Core Labs set out to build the most advanced content delivery network in the world. But to do it, they would need to balance high-performance on a massive scale with the flexibility to adapt to unpredictable growth and demand.
Customer Story
Ankama

Founded in 2001, Ankama, the online gaming production company and one of France’s top digital companies, has been a long-standing Arelion customer. The company chose to use Cloud Connect to help with full-migration to AWS.
Customer Story
Global Bank

Discover how we helped a global bank elevate its operations in Europe and US with an integrated global connectivity solution that delivers smart, predictable performance – with the granular visibility and centralized control it needs.
Customer Story
Pulp and Paper Manufacturing

Read more about our customer case where we helped a global pulp and paper manufacture to solve some crucial issues related to the insufficient network capacity providing a reliable and adaptive WAN underlay solution.
Customer Story
Manufacturer of Electronic Components

Read about our connectivity solution for a global manufacturer in the energy industry and see how we solved some of their major challenges related to network capacity, flexibility and reliability.

Organic growth since 1993—

From startup to Fortune 500, our #1 ranked Internet backbone is your platform for growth. With more than 25 years of experience, a nimble but friendly organization and a unique ecosystem of partners, we are trusted by the most demanding customers in our industry.
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What is guides

Guide
What is IP transit?

IP Transit is a wholesale Internet access service which facilitates access for AS networks to the rest of the Internet via the border gateway protocol (BGP). This guide explains how it works.
Guide
What is the Internet backbone?

The public Internet is a complex mesh of almost one hundred thousand different, but ‘open’ network. At the core of the Internet is the Internet backbone provider. Here you can find out more about its fundamental principles.
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What is Ethernet?

Arelion Ethernet solutions offer secure, high-capacity networks with scalable bandwidth up to 40Gbps on 100GE interfaces and flexibility of EVPL and ELAN topologies. 
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What is DWDM?

DWDM has played an important role in optical networks, and increased the data capacity and utilization of the physical fiber dramatically. DWDM technology is based on the combination and transmission of multiple optical signals, with dedicated wavelengths simultaneously using the same fiber cable. Here’s how it works…
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What is BGP?

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is effectively the universal navigation system of the Internet, a digital postal service that provides the necessary routing information for public Internet networks, or autonomous systems (AS) to steer traffic to each other. Learn more about it here.

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Award-winning Customer Experience—

At Arelion, our award-winning customer experience lies at the heart of everything we do. We work hard to deliver the best customer care in the business. We’re committed to making your experience so good, you don’t even know we’re here.

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