Aryaka: Providing a global network "highway" for multinational enterprises

Gary Sevounts, Aryaka's chief marketing officer, had just flown from Singapore to China to attend a conference. When the reporter interviewed him about enterprise WAN transformation, he described a real customer case that was impressive.

Start the connection mode of the future

To respect customer privacy, let's call this customer A. Customer A is troubled by the operation and maintenance of network connections. Surprisingly, A has 21 network connection suppliers, and each supplier needs to go through the standard process of talking, communicating, purchasing products, and controlling logistics. Company A has assigned 15 employees to be responsible for these things. Obviously, each set of processes costs Company A a lot of manpower and time costs. If A needs to add a new office location around the world, it will take 6 months or even longer just to open a dedicated line.

Gary said that the team responsible for WAN optimization of Company A is a team of five, whose main job is to install and maintain WAN optimization equipment. Since Company A is a multinational company with multiple branches, some employees in the team are in France, some in Brazil, and some in India. These employees belong to different departments of the company, so communication and coordination is not only very troublesome, but also ineffective.

Later, Company A added a logistics visualization company to its suppliers, which installed a set of software specifically for observing network status. But the fact is that after so many devices were installed, the effect was counterproductive, and the company's network became slower.

Later, Aryaka put an end to all these bad situations. Aryaka provides comprehensive integration services, bringing two to ten times the high-performance connection, and customer A can operate without an IT team. Using Aryaka's software-defined wide area network technology, it only takes 1-3 days to deploy offices anywhere in the world. What's even more irresistible is that for company A, the cost of Aryaka's solution is only one-third of its current expenditure.

Gary told reporters that Aryaka is one of the earliest companies in the world to provide software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services, which allows enterprises to centrally manage networks and configure traffic resources more flexibly based on specific applications of data transmission.

He emphasized that the point-to-point design connection brought by Aryaka, the fast point-to-cloud connection, including the global SaaS service, is the future of enterprise connection and enterprise model. Now, it is used by 500 global customers every day.

A 30-millisecond direct global private network

With the deepening of global economic integration, more and more traditional multinational companies are feeling the inconvenience caused by poor network connections. Take the manufacturing industry as an example. Some R&D centers are in India, some production centers are in China, and some design centers are in Europe. How can we ensure that the network connections between these branches and between branches and headquarters are always in a highly stable and high-performance transmission state?

Gary said that the traditional approach in the past was to build dedicated lines and private networks, but the cost of doing so was too high, and latency still existed in cross-border connections. Now, with the transformation of cloud and IT, corporate customers have begun to transfer their applications to the cloud, which has indeed reduced a lot of expenses, but the cross-sea latency of the cloud is still very high, and the packet loss rate is also high.

"Small delays will reduce the company's work efficiency, and long delays may lead to huge economic losses." Gary said that this is definitely not alarmist. A company once designed a very advanced product, but because the network deployment of the production center took as long as 3 months, a market opportunity was seized by another company, and the economic loss was difficult to estimate.

So how does Aryaka's solution avoid the drawbacks of both private networks and cloud connections? That is to build a global private network, the first of which has very low latency, and the second network has almost zero packet loss. Gary said that this private network is specifically designed to solve traffic problems, can achieve 99.9% reliability across countries, and can also adapt to changes and connect to the cloud network. "It can be said that Aryaka has both the reliability of private lines and the flexibility of the Internet."

Aryaka has deployed 26 ports worldwide.

The reporter learned that, from the perspective of the entire industry, Aryaka is the only company that has established its own global distribution points, with a total of 26 ports deployed around the world. These 26 ports can almost cover 90% of the business centers in the market, and any connection can be reached within 30 milliseconds.

Gary made a vivid metaphor. He compared this private network to a highway. Through port connection, enterprise users can convert their own network interface into a highway entrance. As long as they log in with their account and password, they can start their high-speed journey.

Aryaka Five Differences

He also emphasized that by deploying Aryaka, users can first get a global private network. Aryaka is the only software-defined wide area network that has its own network, which is its biggest competitive advantage and the biggest difference. As we all know, the only way to enhance users' ability to connect to the cloud and SARS is to provide a global private network, which is why Aryaka has spent so much energy and money to build this global private network.

Secondly, users can use software-defined WAN. For users, they only need to log in with their account and password. All network tuning and performance improvement work will be handled by Aryaka.

Third, users can optimize the WAN. Gary told reporters that after each customer uses Aryaka's solution, even if the data center is deployed overseas, in actual application, they will feel that it is as convenient as deploying the data center locally. If a box device is used, the traditional WAN optimization will not be able to experience this effect.

Fourth, users can also deliver content to CDN.

Fifth, a visual control mode can be realized. Aryaka hides all the complex and invisible contents on its own end, and provides users with convenience and simplicity. He gave an example, if a customer makes a demand and needs to connect at 300 points around the world. Aryaka will directly push the product that meets the demand to the customer, and then remotely control it through a wireless connection. Aryaka has a visual background, which will tell customers how to install the box, and then remotely monitor it, and finally submit a complete analysis report to the customer. The whole process is visual and transparent.

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Gary Sevounts, Chief Marketing Officer, Aryaka

Gary also gave an example to further illustrate Aryaka's advantages and uniqueness. Most manufacturers' SD-WAN products can only achieve regional optimization and rely on boxes. However, Aryaka can achieve global performance improvement. Its biggest difference lies in the global private network.

It is reported that Aryaka relies heavily on channels for sales in the United States, but in China, it still mainly relies on dealers and partners for marketing. Currently, its main partners in China are 21Vianet and Wangsu. In the future, it is possible to divide dealers into three levels and provide classified support based on support strength, marketing strength, and engineer reserves. "In the future, we hope to continue to expand this win-win situation and better establish this business platform." Gary said.