Big news for GCI and Aryaka. The former, will sell the latter’s services in US, EMEA, APAC and LATAM. Integrating multi-cloud connectivity, application acceleration and optimization, security, last-mile management and network-wide visibility within its secure, global private network, Aryaka’s points of presence (POP) currently serve over 7,000 sites in 63 countries.
“GCI is excited to bring Aryaka SD-WAN solutions to our customers,” said Jim Bradshaw, Chaiman and CEO at Global Convergence. “There are tremendous synergies between our companies, and emerging network technologies that offer hardware-independence provide tremendous opportunity for business agility, faster deployment and turn-up, better performance and greatly reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for our clients.”
“Aryaka is very pleased to work with Global Convergence, whose global hybrid and ‘Day-2’ Managed Services along with their in-country capabilities, strongly complement our business growth strategies,” said Olen Scott, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels at Aryaka.
We recently broke the news the SD-WAN market will reach $9 billion by 2021.
Companies are growing quickly and getting funded at record levels. We just reported Bigleaf Networks got $21M in funding, 128 Technology got $30M and Aryaka received $50M!
You may recall we just had an exclusive interview with CEO Matt Carter and CMO Shashi Kiran, where we learned a tremendous amount about the company’s future.
The market is growing so quickly – new entrants seem to come in by the day – Like ADTRAN who did come in today and other players like Silver Peak who just passed 1,500 major account wins.
In all, an exciting time to be in SD-WAN and its even better for customers as they have many choices and price-points to choose from.
We welcome the industry to the world’s only SD-WAN Expo and MSP Expo, part of the ITEXPO #TechSuperShow, Feb 12-14, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL.
You will see all the leaders in SD-WAN, including (so far):
- Telarus
- Aryaka
- Singtel
- HughesON
- Adaptiv Networks
- Fujitsu
- Oracle
- Tallac