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Industry challenges

Healthcare and life sciences are managing rising demand, tighter budgets, and fast-moving digital change. Data volumes are growing across imaging, research, and connected care. Expectations for security and compliance keep increasing. The network sits underneath it all, and it has to be dependable.

Continuity for clinical and operational systems

When systems slow down or fail, services are affected and decisions take longer.

Data growth across locations and ecosystems

Teams need to share and process large data sets across sites, clouds, and partners.

Hybrid and multi-cloud delivery

Workloads shift across environments. Performance still needs to be predictable.

Security threats that target availability

Healthcare is a frequent target. Protecting uptime is part of protecting care.

Governance and cross-border requirements

Organizations need collaboration, with the right controls around data and access.

A resilient backbone for modern healthcare and pharmaceuticals

You do not need more complexity. You need connectivity that performs consistently and is managed with care. Arelion provides backbone services designed to support healthcare delivery and life sciences operations across regions, sites, and clouds.

What you need: dependable links between hospitals, labs, manufacturing sites, and third parties.
How Arelion helps: a global backbone that supports stable connectivity at enterprise scale, across key regions and ecosystems.

What you need: stable throughput and low latency for imaging, analytics, R&D platforms, and AI workflows.
How Arelion helps: strong interconnection and efficient routing options that support predictable application performance.

What you need: continuity during incidents, maintenance windows, and demand spikes.
How Arelion helps: disciplined operations and network design focused on reliability at scale.

What you need: protection against disruption, alongside confidentiality and compliance.
How Arelion helps: services such as DDoS mitigation that help maintain availability when traffic turns hostile.

What you need: clear oversight, faster fault isolation, and predictable processes.
How Arelion helps: My Arelion provides visibility into services, cases, incidents, and planned works, with options to integrate operational data via APIs

What our customers say

“Arelion stands out for the quality of its network, the responsiveness of its teams, and efficient technical support.”

Large healthcare provider (Europe)

“Arelion delivers strong performance and amazing operational support.”

Global life sciences organization

“…fast response, calm execution, and a backbone we can rely on.”

Healthcare technology partner (US)

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.

Meet our delivery managers

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

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.

Connectivity you can trust for
life-critical work