Aryaka, 8×8 Inc. Partner up for Enhanced Cloud Communications Performance Across the WAN

Aryaka has teamed up with integrated cloud communications platform 8×8, Inc. to extend the platform’s performance across Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN service, enabling enhanced cloud communications performance across the WAN for improved employee productivity and customer experience. In Aryaka’s 4th Annual State of the WAN Report, it was discovered that improved cloud capabilities across the WAN is critical in the burgeoning work-from-anywhere environment. In addition, the report revealed that 32% of respondents indicated that access to cloud applications is one of the biggest challenges with the WAV. Ghassan Abdo, research VPt, Worldwide Telecom, Virtualization & CDN at IDC explained further, “We are living through unprecedented times that require enterprises to accelerate the move to an online digital business and support massive growth of remote workers. SD-WAN together with cloud communications and collaboration is a great choice to support this new digital economy and address the need for a massively distributed and remote work environment.” The 8×8 enterprise communications platform includes features like voice, team chat, meetings and contact center solutions, and when combined with Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN service will allow enterprises, will, according to Aryaka, maximize IT infrastructure investments and prioritize communications traffic across the network.