Arelion has completed a new high-capacity terrestrial route linking Helsinki and Warsaw, reinforcing the Baltic region’s position within Europe’s digital backbone. The new network path establishes a fully diverse, low-latency ring connecting Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, improving resilience in a geopolitically sensitive region and securing capacity for future growth. Designed for enterprises in cloud, finance, and manufacturing sectors, the infrastructure delivers backbone-grade performance with predictable SLAs and improved redundancy for business continuity.
The project combines regional partner fiber assets with Arelion’s backbone infrastructure to offer scalable connectivity across the Baltics, addressing increasing digital demands in a region where the data center market in Finland alone is projected to exceed $5.23 billion by 2030. Supported in part by the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility 2 (CEF2) program, the expansion underscores Europe’s push toward digital sovereignty and regional network diversification.
The diverse terrestrial system provides a direct alternative to congested Nordic corridors via Copenhagen and Stockholm, linking the Baltics to Western Europe. Leveraging open optical line systems, 400G coherent pluggables, and 1.6 Tbps Waves, Arelion’s route ensures scalable, energy-efficient transport for next-generation AI and cloud workloads. Metro routing flexibility in Warsaw and Helsinki complements services such as IP Transit, DIA, Ethernet, and DDoS Mitigation.
• Iso-Roobertinkatu 21-25 PoP, Helsinki, Finland
• Greenergy DC-1 PoP, Hüüru, Estonia
• Tet Data Center Pērses, Riga, Latvia
• Riga TV Tower Data Center, Latvia
• Delska DC2 (formerly RackRay), Vilnius, Lithuania
• Vilnius TV Tower Data Center, Lithuania
• Equinix WA1, Warsaw, Poland
“This new route enhances diversity and bandwidth between the Baltics and Western Europe, delivering the secure, low-latency connectivity our customers need to scale AI and cloud applications,” said Mattias Fridström, Vice President and Chief Evangelist at Arelion. “With support from the EU, we are strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty while ensuring that enterprises and hyperscale operators can rely on resilient infrastructure to power innovation.”
