Aryaka News

Networking technology provider Aryaka Networks Inc. today introduced four cloud services aimed at enabling organizations to connect their offices, data centers and off-premises workloads more efficiently with one another.

Aryaka is taking aim at a broader swath of the SD-WAN market. Today they unveiled a new SmartServices platform that incorporates connectivity-as-a-services with both global and regional tiers, network and application acceleration as-a-service, multi-cloud networking, and security-as-a-service. Aryaka is looking to carve out a bigger piece of the SD-WAN market between the vendors and the traditional service providers.

Aryaka announced it has significantly expanded its portfolio of managed SD-WAN offerings delivered via its newly branded SmartServices platform. Expanding beyond its flagship SmartConnect offering that delivers connectivity-as-a-service, Aryaka introduced four additional ‘as-a-service’ offerings: Aryaka SmartOptimize, Aryaka SmartCloud, Aryaka SmartSecure and Aryaka SmartInsights.

Aryaka SmartInsights are enabled by the MyAryaka Cloud and designed to provide meaningful and actionable insights on the State of your WAN, ensuring that the network is configured properly and remains operational at scale.

Aryaka SmartSecure is designed to complement SmartConnect with managed SD-WAN security-as-a-service offerings. At the branch, an access firewall within the ANAP offers ‘north-south’ control, while an optional NFV-based Tier-1 firewall offers comprehensive L7 protection. Aryaka Zones extends this to the LAN with ‘east-west’ security, through site-segmentation with policy-based access.

Aryaka SmartCloud is designed to complement SmartConnect with multi-cloud networking delivered as-a-service.It is a plug and play multi-cloud and SaaS connectivity service that enables customers to spin up connectivity to IaaS and SaaS on-demand and in just a few hours.

SmartConnect is an on-demand, fully managed and end-to-end SD-WAN connectivity service for enterprises, offering global, regional, and local as well as cloud connectivity. It is a one-stop service to instantly connect your branches, remote locations, data centers and cloud service providers, using Aryaka’s agile SD-WAN platform.

Aryaka SmartOptimize is an on-demand, application-optimization and acceleration delivered-as-a-service and is a key component of SmartConnect. Aryaka’s patented architecture optimizes and compresses WAN traffic in multiple ways, delivering LAN-like performance via a private Layer 2 core with QoS and intelligent edge optimization, multi-segment transport optimization for TCP, Advanced Redundancy Removal for any uncompressed and unencrypted application, and application acceleration for SSL and CIFS/SMB.

Aryaka’s SmartCDN provides superior performance for dynamic IP applications for users worldwide. It leverages Aryaka’s global private Layer 2 network to bypass the congested public internet across the middle-mile, delivering enterprise-grade application delivery to remote employees, partners, and mobile users.

Expanding its managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) portfolio, Aryaka said it had introduced a cost-effective regional tier with as-a-service offerings that allow businesses to pay for only the network as they consume. Delivered via the company’s SmartConnect platform, the additional as-a-service offerings include network and application acceleration, multicloud networking, managed security and actionable insights.

Aryaka has expanded its portfolio of managed SD-WAN solutions with the launch of its newly branded SmartServices platform.

Moving beyond its SmartConnect offering that delivers connectivity-as-a-service, Aryaka has introduced four additional as-a-service offerings that include network and application acceleration, multi-cloud networking, managed security and actionable insights.

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