Arelion, formerly named Telia Carrier and TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC), is a provider of

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services based in

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, Sweden. Since 2021, the name Twelve99 is also used in technical contexts. Arelion is a

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provider, assigned Autonomous System number AS1299.

History

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started building its carrier network in 1993, which became TeliaSonera International Carrier. On 19 April 2016, the carrier was rebranded to Telia Carrier, together with its parent company dropping the "Sonera" part of its name. On 6 October 2020, Telia Company agreed to sell its Telia Carrier unit to Polhem Infra for roughly US$1 billion. The sale was completed on 1 June 2021. Related to the purchase, Telia Carrier begun moving from telia.net to a new domain name twelve99.net for technical uses. The domain name is a reference to Telia's

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1299. On 19 January 2022, Telia Carrier rebranded to Arelion.

Services

The core business of Arelion is to provide fiber-based telecommunications services and infrastructure. The company is an IP connectivity supplier ranked number one globally. It also provides services to operators, content providers enterprises, education and online gaming networks. The company owns and operates a large fiber network, spanning 70,000 km and connecting 320

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spread across more than 120 cities in 35 countries . The network is centrally managed and monitored and optimized from Network Operations Centers 24/7/365.

Customers

The company's customer base is mainly

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and includes the telecoms service providers

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and

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, the content providers

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, and the

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. In May 2012, Arelion announced it had been selected to build and manage a pan-European optical network for Facebook.
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optical network will allow Facebook to serve users in Africa, Middle East and Europe from a data center in

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, Sweden, near the

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First terabit optical trial

In November 2011 Arelion and

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announced completion of the world's first Terabit optical transmission based on

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s. The demonstration was performed on 1105 km of

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between

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and

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. The trial was conducted with elements of the new

DTN-X platform and demonstrated twice the capacity of previous trials by adding a terabit of bandwidth to a route carrying production capacity.

Corporate community support

Since 2008, Arelion has donated free service to the

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, being the only global tier 1 carrier to do so, as of February 2012.

References

External links

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