Aryaka Networks Selected as Finalist for 2016 Best of Interop Award

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 14, 2016) - Aryaka today announced its selection as a finalist for Interop Las Vegas' 2016 Best of Interop Awards in the SDN category alongside Cisco and VMware. The Best of Interop Awards recognize exhibitors for innovation and technological advancements in 10 core areas of IT. Award winners will be announced at Interop Las Vegas 2016, held May 2-6 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

"We are honored to be selected as a finalist for the 2016 Best of Interop Award," said Gary Sevounts, Aryaka's Chief Marketing Officer. "Aryaka is seeing phenomenal growth and customer traction with its latest SD-WAN functionality. Being nominated as a finalist in the SDN category this year further validates Aryaka as a primary innovator and leader in the software-defined networking space."

In addition to being an award finalist, Aryaka is also showcasing its new SD-WAN Ultra service and Software-Defined Network Platform at Interop Las Vegas, one of the industry's most-respected independent technology events for modern IT and networking professionals. 

Aryaka's SD-WAN Ultra is the first fully integrated SD-WAN solution that combines a global private network, WAN Optimization, and cloud/SaaS acceleration to deliver enhanced application performance, reduced capital expenditures, and simplified network operations at branch offices, all as a fully managed service.

Aryaka's new offering addresses the "Achilles' heel" of SD-WAN solutions -- inconsistent latencies and jitter -- associated with their dependence on the public Internet for transport of mission-critical voice, video, data, and application traffic that is vital to business execution. It is the first and only SD-WAN solution that enables enterprises to solve application performance issues without having to invest heavily in legacy MPLS technology.

Aryaka's Software-Defined Network Platform provides end-to-end enterprise-grade connectivity, application acceleration, and other network services to globally distributed enterprises. This network platform has been designed from the outset to reduce complexity and cost, provide high performance for cloud services -- even in geographies like Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa -- and deliver Application Acceleration as just one of a range of network services that can be provisioned on-demand.

"Congratulations to Aryaka and all Best of Interop finalists on the success of their new products and positive impact on the IT community," said Interop General Manager Jennifer Jessup. "These are the types of visionary solutions that define the future of networking. We're excited for Interop attendees to be able to interact with these products first-hand in the Expo."

After a thorough review of all finalists, an expert judging panel will announce the winners on May 4, 12:00-12:45 pm on the Expo floor.

For more information on the 2016 Best of Interop Awards, please visit: www.interop.com/lasvegas/special-events/best-of-interop-awards.php

About Aryaka

Aryaka's Software-Defined Network Platform provides optimized, software-defined network connectivity and application acceleration to globally distributed enterprises. Aryaka's services have over 10 million users across 4,000+ sites. Leading brands such as Skullcandy, Air China, Freescale Semiconductor, and ThoughtWorks, as well as partners such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Intelisys, and SK Broadband, have all chosen Aryaka for their enterprise-grade networking needs.

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About Interop

Interop is the leading global IT infrastructure event series, offering in-depth education alongside a showcase of emerging technologies in an independent, vendor-neutral environment. For 30 years, Interop has brought the IT community together to explore the latest in network infrastructure, encouraging collaboration, and interoperability. Through dynamic conference programs, Interop helps professionals at all career levels leverage the network, systems and applications that enable business innovation. The Interop Expo and InteropNet Demo Lab provide immersive, hands-on experiences, while connecting enterprise IT buyers with leading suppliers. Interop Las Vegas is the flagship event held each spring, with an annual event in Tokyo and Cloud Connect China in Shanghai. For more information, visit interop.com. Interop is organized by UBM Americas, a part of UBM plc (UBM.L), an Events First marketing and communications services business. For more information, visit ubmamericas.com.