Our Mission

Eliminate the network as a barrier to business success

Because enterprise speed matters

How long it takes to get your coffee, how fast or slow you can board the plane, when your Amazon shipment arrives … it all matters. Speed and performance in today’s world defines a brand. The ease by which we interact in the consumer world is extending to our lives as employees, clients, and corporate leaders. We no longer want speed … we demand it.

The promise of the cloud was to meet this challenge for the digitally transforming enterprise. SaaS and IaaS exploded over the last 10 years, pushing mission critical applications to the cloud and ushering in a new paradigm for the enterprise network. New marketing tools, CRMs, ERPs, R&D, and production environments were just a few clicks away, separated only by the chasm that is the secure, enterprise network.

Gone are the days of hosting every application in a centralized, protected data center. What was a neat and predictable network became a fragmented, expensive, sometimes vulnerable, and time-consuming operation for the engineers, analysts, and operators charged with running it.

How we help

Apcela designs and manages software-defined, cloud optimized networks for the digitally transforming enterprise. Supporting clients like Dow Jones, Language Line, and Lego, we take the complexity out of managing a hybrid IT infrastructure to deliver the speed, performance, and security that your customers and employees deserve. Core to our success is:

  • A network of 60+ CloudHubs in carrier-neutral data centers around the world
  • Peering with cloud providers like Microsoft, Amazon, SAP, Salesforce and dozens more
  • A global, low-latency, high-performance network backbone
  • A software-defined approach to network management
  • Distributed security tools that push IDS, IPS, firewalls, and malware detection to the edge
  • A world class team whose obsession with optimizing the network is topped only by its love for helping enterprises grow

The cloud can transform your business. We can help.

Speed is in our DNA

Apcela pioneered the development of high-performance, application delivery networks, earning our stripes in the high-frequency capital trading markets. With network performance meaning the difference of millions of dollars every day for our customers, our passion became how to rethink application performance to deliver amazing results. And we did.

Seeing the cloud revolution on the horizon, we expanded our sights to the enterprise. We saw incredible network and security teams facing the challenge of how to adapt a premise-based, data-center architecture to a hybrid, decentralized SaaS and IaaS model. We knew we could help.

We grew our global backbone to be one of the fastest in the world. We established direct connect and peering relationships with every major SaaS and IaaS provider. We grew our physical and virtual presence closer to customer locations at the biggest and smallest internet exchanges. We leveraged SD-WAN and software defined technologies like no others, before or since. We grew our team of incredible, customer-focused talent. Most importantly, we helped our customers transform, grow, and #GoFaster.

Our History

About Apcela

2005

CFN Services founded

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2006

Creates FiberSource network optimization and routing platform 

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2010-2012

Named to Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies

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2011-2014

Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500

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2015

CFN Services expands to cloud application acceleration

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2016

Series A Investment – Claritas Capital

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2017

CFN Services completes rebrand to Apcela

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2018

ISG names Apcela as network Leader in Provider Lens Report

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2019

Apcela helps [insert your company name] digitally transform

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2020

Launches Arcus Platform: network + security

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