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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Solna,Stockholm,Sweden |
Area served | Europe, Asia, Americas |
Key people | Daniel Kurgan(CEO) |
| Products | International wholesale telecommunications and IP services |
| Parent | Polhem Infra |
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| Traffic Levels | 100+ Tbps[1] |
| Website | www |
Arelion, formerly namedTelia Carrier andTeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC), is a provider oftelecommunication services based inSolna, Sweden. Arelion is atier 1 network provider, assignedAutonomous System number AS1299. Since 2021, the nameTwelve99 is also used in technical contexts.[2]
Telia Company started building its carrier network in 1993, which became TeliaSonera International Carrier.[3]
On 19 April 2016, the carrier was rebranded to Telia Carrier, together with its parent company dropping the "Sonera" part of its name.[4]
On 6 October 2020, Telia Company agreed to sell its Telia Carrier unit to Polhem Infra for roughly US$1 billion.[5] The sale was completed on 1 June 2021.[6]
Related to the purchase, Telia Carrier begun moving from telia.net to a new domain name twelve99.net for technical uses.[2] The domain name is a reference to Telia'sAS number 1299.
On 19 January 2022, Telia Carrier rebranded to Arelion.[7]
The core business of Arelion is to provide fiber-based telecommunications services and infrastructure. The company is anIP connectivity supplier ranked number one globally according to Kentik Market Intelligence. It also provides services to operators, content providers enterprises, education andonline gaming networks.
The company owns and operates a largefiber network, spanning 75,000 km and connecting 320points of presence spread across more than 120 cities in 35 countries as of March 2021.[update][3] The network is centrally managed and monitored and optimized from Network Operations Centers 24/7/365.
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The company's customer base is mainlywholesale and includes the telecoms service providersViaSat[8] andRostelecom,[9] the content providersFacebook,[10]Twitch,[11]Activision Blizzard,[12] and thecontent delivery networksCDNetworks.[13][14] In May 2012, Arelion announced it had been selected to build and manage a pan-European optical network for Facebook.[15] The multi-terabitoptical network will allow Facebook to serve users in Africa, Middle East and Europe from a data center inLuleå, Sweden, near theArctic Circle.
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In November 2011 Arelion andInfinera announced completion of the world's first Terabitoptical transmission based on500Gbit/ssuper-channels. The demonstration was performed on 1105 km ofoptical fiber betweenLos Angeles andSan Jose, California. The trial was conducted with elements of the newInfinera DTN-X platform and demonstrated twice the capacity of previous trials by adding a terabit of bandwidth to a route carrying300Gbit/s production capacity.
Since 2008, Arelion has donated free service to theWikimedia Foundation, being the only global tier 1 carrier to do so, as of February 2012.[citation needed]