Provider Highlight

Arelion AI Direct: The Emerging Standard for AI-Grade Connectivity

Many network providers offer connectivity. Very few offer connectivity designed specifically for AI. Arelion’s AI Direct offering is one of the first end-to-end network stacks purpose-built for large-scale AI workloads.

It brings together a suite of capabilities that align perfectly with the needs of modern AI posture:

• 100% dedicated, symmetrical bandwidth

AI workloads can’t tolerate shared congestion or variable throughput. AI Direct guarantees dedicated capacity with consistent performance.

• High-speed optical transport (100G/400G today, 800G coming)

This is essential for moving training data, synchronizing models across regions, and connecting GPU clusters with minimal delay.

• Tier-1 global Internet backbone

With 70% of the global Internet connecting directly to Arelion and 85% of traffic staying on-net, AI applications can reach global users with speed and stability.

• Multi-cloud interconnectivity to all major CSPs

Private, low-latency access to AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and IBM — critical when AI workflows jump between environments.

• Layered security and AI-driven DDoS mitigation

AI workloads deal with sensitive and mission-critical data; the network must enforce security as a foundational layer.

• Flexible service composition (Ethernet, Cloud Connect, Wavelengths, IP Backbone, Dark Fiber)

All of it can be delivered on a single port for cost efficiency, rapid deployment, and scalable architecture.

This is what an AI-ready network looks like.

What Progressive CIOs and CEOs Are Doing Right Now

Leaders who are leaning into AI are making three decisive moves:

1. Treating connectivity as a first-order architectural decision.

No AI strategy is complete without a network strategy. Forward-looking organizations are mapping data flows, training pipelines, and cloud pathways before they buy hardware.

2. Upgrading their backbone before their GPUs.

They understand that GPU investment is wasted if the data pipeline feeding those GPUs is slow or unreliable.

3. Building for multi-cloud and distributed AI from day one.

The winners will be companies that can fluidly move data between clouds, across regions, and into on-prem systems with no friction.

The Bottom Line for CEOs and CIOs

AI is not just a model running in a cloud region. It is an ecosystem of data, computation, inference, analytics, and orchestration — all connected by the network.

If the network fails, AI fails.If the network is slow, AI is slow.If the network is insecure, AI is compromised.

Enterprises that understand this now are creating an advantage that will compound for years. Those who treat connectivity as an afterthought will spend the next decade fighting bottlenecks they could have avoided.

AI Direct and similar backbone-grade networks are not optional upgrades — they are the new foundation for enterprise innovation.

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