Start-Up Puts the Network in the Cloud

It's supposed to give enterprises a high-performance, highly available and scalable application-aware network whenever and wherever they do business. Its SaaS widgetry is said to be a first of its kind, liberating users from the current box-based appliances and managed service solutions that can take months to test and implement.

It claims to be the only true innovation in the WAN optimization market in the last five years that addresses the business requirements for high capacity and real-time optimization of all applications.

Being SaaS, Aryaka's widgetry, a fundamental architectural and business model shift that supposedly couldn't be done, can be deployed in minutes with no capital expense. The company claims users can see a 158x performance improvement and a 500%+ return on investment.

Aryaka, Sanskrit for noble in a truthful kind of way, is the brainchild of CEO Ajit Gupta (pictured), who started Speedera and sold it to Akamai, which also revs up the delivery of Internet-borne content, for over a half a billion dollars. Speedera was a B2C public-facing web traffic play; Aryaka is an internal-facing enterprise play, meant to appeal to anybody with a branch office - the further away the better - that's frustrated with the latency and packet loss of their communications.

Aryaka's platform, an exercise in "thinking beyond the box," can piggyback on any long-haul pipe and tickle it into handling 5x-10x more traffic quicker or find an alternate route. It works with Exchange, Office, VoIP, video and your basic file transfer, stuff like NFS, FTP, CIFS, MAPI, HTTP and checking code in and out, roughly 95% of what's communicated.

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