Headquartered in Iowa, The Lauridsen Group, Inc. (LGI) is a collection of six independent companies focused on manufacturing products that enhance health and nutrition. With over 100 years of history they now have more than 60 manufacturing and sales locations in 20 different countries.

In 2019, LGI began replacing MPLS network infrastructure with Meraki SD-WAN, but ultimately found the infrastructure mix to be untenable to manage.

By 2022 they were looking to offload the management headaches and inflated costs that resulted from juggling SD-WAN hardware devices across some sites, MPLS at others, and a lack of converged security or last mile management.

In 2022 LGI switched from self-managed SD-WAN and MPLS to Aryaka’s fully managed SD-WAN across all of its locations – significantly reducing cost and time management headaches associated with hardware, multiple vendors and last mile service providers.

In 2024, LGI was excited to adopt Unified SASE as a Service to replace its managed Checkpoint virtual firewall, seeing Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a natural evolution for their business. The key factors in their decision to go with Aryaka rather than another managed firewall/SASE provider came down to:

• The ability to fully converge network and security without complexity or other vendors
• An excellent experience with Aryaka’s SD-WAN performance and support
• The ability to have granular control over user access from all levels of the network, creating tailored rules for anyone interacting with their network