Aryaka Provides WAN Optimization-as-a-Service

Aryaka (News - Alert) is a company that specializes in WAN optimization-as-a-service, which has been a technology market since about 1999. While Aryaka has only been in the space since 2008, it is poised for a breakout year in 2012.

The company acknowledges that many enterprises route their communications over the Internet, which is not good enough for most businesses. So Aryaka’s goal is to make applications work better. It deploys appliances symmetrically, using compression and deduplication to provide LAN-like performance across the WAN.

This technology is viewed by many as expensive and complex, and penetration is only about 10 percent worldwide, so Aryaka sees an opportunity to serve a large market simply and cost-effectively. The challenge for the company was to figure out how to do it for all sizes and in all locations, since the speed-to-adoption varied across the world. The biggest question for the company was how to serve this as a utility. Since it had never been done before, the team took six months just to make diagrams and two years to develop the product and platform.

Aryaka has points of presence around the world, connected using dedicated links from multiple providers. Its software stack was built from the ground up, designed with multitenancy, security and quality of service for multiple customers in mind. The company focused on its technology differentiators to do things in new and more efficient ways. Since the solutions are built on the network they provide private network option functionality and application performance across the board as well as high visibility. Aryaka touts itself as a one-stop-shop to meet these needs.

Down the road, the company hopes to expand its services worldwide to fill this important niche it is designed to reach. And, with well-built and effective technology, the Aryaka is well on its way to do so.

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