Lightstorm Unveils Polarin – A Game-Changing NaaS Platform Enabling Scalable and Agile Cloud Interconnectivity for Enterprises

• Polarin by Lightstorm allows enterprises to quickly scale in a hybrid and multi-cloud world while ensuring 100% uptime, low latency, and availability
• Businesses can use Polarin by Lightstorm to manage interconnections with agility, and provision a network across clouds and datacenters within minutes
• This disruptive solution will lead to wider adoption of multi-cloud by making it easier for enterprises to easily access and build a network for the cloud

Lightstorm proudly announces the launch of Polarin, a ground-breaking self-serve Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform. Polarin by Lightstorm empowers enterprises to manage network interconnections effortlessly and cost-effectively across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, internet exchanges, CDN service providers, and a myriad of SaaS applications like O365, all within a secure private network.

Designed to cater to cloud-native, forward-thinking enterprises, Polarin's revolutionary network fabric offers a diverse range of connectivity solutions, granting unparalleled control and visibility over network design, deployment, and scaling in the dynamic realm of hybrid and multi-cloud networks. As a self-service platform, Polarin by Lightstorm caters to the ever-evolving needs of modern businesses, ensuring they can deliver enhanced customer experiences without the need to overhaul their network or cloud architecture.

"Our launch of Polarin by Lightstorm underscores our unwavering commitment to develop products and solutions that truly empower businesses to leverage cutting-edge technologies for accelerated growth. In today's rapidly evolving landscape, enterprises seek a transparent, secure, and agile solution to effectively manage their increasingly complex cloud networks. Traditional network solutions are ill-equipped for the cloud era and fail to address the evolving needs of businesses. Polarin by Lightstorm is built on the bedrock of transparency, agility, and scalability, allowing businesses to accelerate their hybrid and multi-cloud journey," shares Amajit Gupta, Group CEO & MD, Lightstorm

Gone are the days of cumbersome provisioning processes and rigid legacy networks that stifle enterprise growth. Polarin, built with a customer-centric approach, orchestrates the entire customer lifecycle through APIs, seamlessly integrating with various technology partners. This empowers businesses with not only cost-effective network management, but also customized solutions tailored to their unique requirements. By simplifying network management and enhancing operational efficiency, Polarin enables significant cost savings for businesses.

“Our goal with Polarin is to drive growth for burgeoning businesses across regions. This disruptive NaaS solution can enable companies to not only manage varied cloud infrastructure with ease, but also mould the same to their bespoke needs. A robust solution that offers 100% uptime and low latency, Polarin by Lightstorm gives businesses all the tools they need to flourish. With Polarin, enterprises can now embrace a future where scalable and agile cloud interconnectivity becomes a reality,” says Lalit S Chowdhary, CTIO, Lightstorm.

It is time to say goodbye to limitations and embrace a network solution that propels your business toward unparalleled growth and success.

About Polarin by Lightstorm

Polarin™ is an interconnection network platform offering from Lightstorm that enables seamless connectivity between data centers, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, internet exchanges, and SaaS applications like Microsoft Office 365. With Polarin™, organizations can effortlessly scale their networks while ensuring high availability, low latency and 100% uptime, delivering a transformative customer experience. Experience unparalleled performance and agility with Polarin™, and empower your digital infrastructure for the future.

About Lightstorm

Lightstorm is building infrastructure for hyperscale networking in South Asia and Southeast Asia to accelerate the region's growth and spur innovation in the digital economy. It is building a first-of-its-kind utility-grade resilient fiber network, SmartNet, in several countries in the region. A trusted partner of several Fortune 500 companies, Lightstorm is creating a robust foundation of digital infrastructure to create new sources of value and differentiation for businesses.

For more information, visit https://www.lightstorm.net/. You can also connect with Lightstorm’s experts on LinkedIn.

DE-CIX and Lightstorm Partner to Accelerate Access to DE-CIX Internet Exchange platform

Lightstorm’s customers will be able to directly access DE-CIX’s Internet Exchanges, allowing them to benefit from an extended network coverage and superior network performance

Lightstorm, India’s first carrier-neutral network infrastructure platform, today announced a partnership with DE-CIX, the world’s leading interconnection platform operator, to provide direct connectivity to DE-CIX’s Internet Exchanges from any of 45+ multi-tenant data centers (MTDC) where Lightstorm has a presence.

The partnership will allow Lightstorm’s customers to easily and quickly connect to the DE-CIX platform through its high-speed software-defined smartnet network. Being able to access DE-CIX’s global Internet Exchanges (IX) from any of the MTDCs will allow Lightstorm to further bring down latency for its customers, improve network resilience and provide an overall more optimized content experience to their users.

Lightstorm’s innovative network is designed to provide extreme resiliency to business users. It leverages utility-grade fiber infrastructure along with leaf-spine mesh network architecture to ensure 100% uptime, greater resilience, and an extremely low latency network. Lightstorm’s first-of-its-kind utility-grade fiber network, smartnet, connects seven key economic hubs with over 12,000 km of fiber, connecting 45+ MTDCs currently and aiming for 100+ MTDCs in the near future.

Trusted by close to 2,500 networks across the world, DE-CIX provides premium interconnection services and operates 32 carrier and data center-neutral Internet Exchanges in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia. DE-CIX operates one of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges, with close to 11 terabits of data throughput per second. In India, DE-CIX operates four IXs, in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata. In 2021 DE-CIX Mumbai became the largest IX in the APAC region.

Together, Lightstorm and DE-CIX will provide a superior experience in bringing content closer to the users in one of the largest growth markets for Internet traffic in the world. DE-CIX’s award-winning global multi-service platform offers interconnection services specifically designed for the needs of enterprises, e.g. catering to cloud connectivity needs, offering network security services, and closed user groups for enterprises to create their own exclusive interconnection ecosystem with their chosen partners.

“We are committed to providing a truly state-of-the-art network infrastructure to Indian service providers and content players. Partnership with DE-CIX is a new milestone in our journey and allows us to provide greater value to our customers by allowing them to easily access the DE-CIX platform and enhance the end user’s experience. We are excited to partner with DE-CIX and are confident that it will provide a reliable exchange of traffic, allowing for improved performance for our customers,” says Amajit Gupta, Chief Executive Officer at Lightstorm.

“We are thrilled to partner with Lightstorm to expand our partner network in India. Reliable connectivity is the bedrock of digital businesses and direct access to our Internet Exchanges will allow Lightstorm’s customers to benefit from improved reliability, better network performance, and modern interconnection services. We look forward to working together to provide truly world-class Internet connectivity to its partners,” says Ivo Ivanov, Chief Executive Officer at DE-CIX.