Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA) is a design firm with 1500 employees across 22 offices globally. They were challenged with unreliable connectivity (particularly in China) and an inability to adopt cloud-based applications.

Prior to deploying Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN solution, Hirsch Bedner Associates was experiencing the following issues with their MPLS + WAN optimization box vendor:

• Unreliable connectivity to China
• Inability to adopt cloud-based applications

The company selected Aryaka to enable multi-cloud connectivity, and to improve connectivity and application performance in China.

After deploying Aryaka, HBA achieved the following results:

• Accelerated key applications, including Microsoft Office365
• Increased productivity and collaboration among end-users
• Stable connectivity for end-users in China, including their remote employees who make up
  over 75% of the company’s workforce in Asia

• An estimated time savings of 10-25%
• Gained the ability to support an estimated 25% more users
• Positively impacted the network TCO by decreasing hardware costs by up to 50%, decreasing
  software costs by less than 25% and decreasing time spent on incident resolution by 25%