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Cirion Technologies Launches Network-As-A-Service Offering in Latin America
Cirion Technologies announced the launch of its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offering to transform enterprise connectivity across data centers, hybrid clouds, and artificial intelligence environments. In this initial phase, the solution will be available across a specific portion of Cirion’s network and its regional ecosystem of carrier-neutral data centers, supported by more than 105,000 kilometers of fiber optic infrastructure. The first phase of the deployment focuses on automated data center connectivity, enabling Cirion customers to order, configure, and activate high-capacity network services directly through the Cirion customer portal. The new capability streamlines the entire service lifecycle for enterprises—from order placement to provisioning—reducing delivery times from days or weeks to near real-time. The integration is seamless over customers’ existing network and security infrastructure, without the need to replace hardware or modify access or protection policies. In this early stage, NaaS is being deployed progressively across portions of Cirion’s network and data center ecosystem, enabling gradual adoption aligned with current security frameworks and facilitating uptake by IT teams. The solution incorporates self-service capabilities, operational visibility, and dynamic bandwidth management, bringing network connectivity closer to the flexible consumption model of the cloud. Powered by Ciena’s optical technology, coordinated through Carma’s network and digital infrastructure platform, and enabled through self-management via a web-based portal, Cirion delivers programmable optical connectivity with near real-time provisioning, monitoring, and service management. As part of the project, Carma developed and integrated API-based interfaces between Cirion’s digital service platform and Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite, enabling automated provisioning of wavelength services across Cirion’s extensive fiber and subsea footprint. Wavelength services are the first product enabled through the new NaaS framework, with additional transport and IP services scheduled to follow. The solution combines Ciena’s optical networking platforms (Waveserver, 6500 Reconfigurable Line System), routing and switching products (8110 and 8114 Coherent Aggregation Routers), and automation software (Navigator Network Control Suite) with an OSS/BSS layer that enables service orchestration, commercial management, billing, and a digital customer experience. This positions NaaS as an evolution from traditional connectivity toward a flexible, scalable consumption platform aligned with cloud, AI, and real-time enterprise operations. The integration allows Cirion to dynamically allocate optical resources, validate service feasibility, and activate customer circuits without manual intervention—a key requirement for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and enterprises seeking flexible, consumption-based connectivity models. The Latin American cloud market is expected to grow from USD 63 billion in 2025 to USD 125 billion in 2030, yet the connectivity linking enterprises to that cloud continues to operate under decades-old models—fixed circuits, changes that take weeks, and capacity that does not adapt dynamically to demand. NaaS closes this gap by applying to networks the same principles that made cloud successful: elasticity, automation, and pay-as-you-use. The urgency is driven by Agentic AI. This next generation of artificial intelligence operates through autonomous agents communicating across different data centers and cloud environments. An agent in Bogotá interacting with another in São Paulo requires a circuit that can be established instantly and released once the task is complete—something static networks cannot provide. Cirion’s NaaS, powered by Ciena, transforms the network into an intelligent platform capable of responding in real time. Cirion delivers an on-demand service built on its own infrastructure, with regional coverage, rapid activation, and end-to-end management, without the need to rely on third-party networks or manual processes for changes and upgrades. This includes performance monitoring, usage metrics, API-driven operations, and a more transparent experience for enterprise customers. Cirion will showcase this innovation at ITW 2026, demonstrating how enterprises can interact with its NaaS ecosystem and experience first-hand a new generation of on-demand enterprise connectivity for Latin America.