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The backbone for bold finance

When trust is everything, your network cannot be the variable. Arelion delivers high-performance connectivity that financial institutions can rely on worldwide.

Industry challenges

In financial services, change is planned and deliberate. Digital expectations, security pressure, and hybrid architectures raise the bar for network resilience and control.

Hybrid and multicloud complexity

Workloads and data move between data centers, clouds, and SaaS platforms. Connectivity must stay consistent across regions and providers.

Operational resilience and continuity

Banks and financial organizations need proven failover options, tested recovery plans, and partners who perform under pressure.

Capacity planning under unpredictable demand

Customer peaks and fraud events create sudden traffic shifts. The network must scale without disruption.

Regulatory and audit requirements

Governance, documentation, and clear accountability matter. Service transparency is as important as service performance.

Predictable application performance

It’s not just about the lowest possible latency – it’s about consistent experience for customers and staff, across branches, hubs, and cloud services.

    A resilient backbone for financial services transformation

    Financial services transformation succeeds when the network stays steady. It must connect hybrid environments simply, scale without disruption, and support governance that stands up to scrutiny. Arelion provides the network services that help you modernize with confidence.

    Consistency across hybrid and multicloud environments
    • What the industry needs: Financial services teams need connectivity that behaves consistently as applications and data move between data centers, clouds, and SaaS platforms. They also need global reach that supports growth and consolidation.
    • How Arelion helps: Arelion operates a global Internet backbone spanning 80,000 km and serving customers in 129 countries. That scale supports predictable connectivity across regions and providers, and helps reduce complexity as architectures evolve.
    Operational resilience that supports always-on services
    • What the industry needs: Digital banking and core services depend on continuity. Institutions need resilience that can be planned, tested, and relied on during real events. They also need a partner that stays calm and clear under pressure.
    • How Arelion helps: Arelion is built around backbone reliability and disciplined operations. We help customers design for resilience, so connectivity remains dependable through incidents, maintenance windows, and major change programs.
    Capacity that keeps pace with unpredictable demand
    • What the industry needs: Peaks are inevitable. Customer activity, fraud events, and platform migrations can drive sudden traffic shifts. The network must scale without introducing instability.
    • How Arelion helps: Arelion’s backbone scale supports growth in bandwidth and reach, without forcing constant redesign. It provides headroom for planned expansion and the resilience to handle unexpected demand.
    Service transparency and governance for regulated environments
    • What the industry needs: Financial services needs visibility, documentation, and clear accountability. Service transparency matters for operational control, internal governance, and audit readiness.
    • How Arelion helps: The My Arelion portal supports service management with visibility into service inventory, support cases, network disturbances, and planned works. It also provides API access to service data, which helps teams integrate connectivity into their operating model.
    Predictable experience for customers and staff
    • What the industry needs: It is not just about the lowest possible latency. It is about consistent experience across branches, hubs, contact centers, and cloud services.
    • How Arelion helps: Arelion’s #1 ranked backbone is engineered for stable routing and dependable performance at scale. That consistency helps protect customer experience and staff productivity, even as platforms and traffic patterns change.

    What our customers say

    …flawless execution by Arelion…
    Large US financial services company
    Arelion gets a 10/10 because of its global WAN and cloud strategy, service quality, delivery, coordination and excellent support with C-level backing.
    Global securities exchange

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      Why enterprise teams choose Arelion – and keep choosing us

      Service excellence

      With a world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 79, customers stay with Arelion because the experience is consistently excellent. We show up, take responsibility, and keep your network performing – day after day.

      Service delivery experience

      From order to operation, we take end-to-end ownership. Backed by local market knowledge and a global delivery organization, your service delivery manager helps ensure smooth implementation, clear communication, and predictable outcomes.

      Focused by design

      Since 1993, our organically grown fiber backbone has powered many of the world’s most demanding businesses. We focus on one thing: delivering scalable, resilient connectivity that enterprises can rely on. With extensive interconnection into major cloud on-ramps and key data center ecosystems, we can provide efficient routing with fewer hops – supporting predictable performance for cloud, SaaS, and global sites.

        One point of contact – service delivery

        Our service delivery team coordinates network-related orders across products and technologies. We don’t hand you over mid-way – our team stays accountable from order to operation until the service is fully delivered and operating as expected. You’ll have a clear point of contact and concise communication throughout delivery, supported by measurable, transparent lead times – so we deliver right first time, every time.

        My Arelion – customer portal

        My Arelion puts the information you need at your fingertips – services, performance, deliveries, cases, incidents, and planned works in one place. Secure access, including two-factor authentication (2FA), helps protect your account while making it easier to stay in control.

        Our network

        Spanning over 80,000 km and serving customers in 129 countries, Arelion’s backbone connects North America, Europe, and Asia. AS1299 (Twelve99) is ranked number one globally for connectedness, meaning it can reach more of the internet more directly than any other single network. For enterprises, that translates into fewer hops, lower latency, and fewer points of failure, helping cloud, SaaS, and global applications perform consistently. This is the backbone for bold enterprises.

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        Why Arelion?

        • 72% of Internet routes are directly served by Arelion’s global backbone, AS1299
        • 95% of end-users in the US and EU are within one hop of AS1299
        • 8/9 of the world’s most valued brands are served by Arelion network
        • 5 top cloud providers directly connected: AWS, Google, Azure, Oracle and IBM
        • 350+ PoPs globally
        • 80,000 km of our own optical fiber assets