Johannesburg, 01 Aug 2018
Accelerate Networks, exclusive distributor of Aryaka in South Africa, has performed a significant number of customer-specific tests relating to application performance over the last year. The aim was to highlight performance differences for its customers by bench-marking application performance over the Internet, and then comparing it to application performance over the Aryaka network when accessing overseas applications in cloud or WAN deployments.
Testing was carried out by the customer, Accelerate and Aryaka to ensure the results could be quantified. They included such tests as file uploads and downloads, application set-up and connection time, SQL queries, application time-outs, application wait time, etc. Other tests related to reduction in application support tickets and user experience feedback.
The customer conclusion in each customer-specific evaluation and POC was the Aryaka network is the fastest and highest-quality network available in South Africa for global cloud and WAN-based application delivery.
Says Stuart Hardy, CMO for Accelerate Networks: "The Aryaka network is the most significant advancement in networking in the last 30 years. It's not only a high-quality carrier network, but a network that is application-aware and optimised, resulting in the highest-quality application experience available today. Customers that use Aryaka in Africa have been in search of improved application delivery for their WAN or cloud applications, as they understand the value of productivity and time or are frustrated by poor application performance. When measured against the Internet, MPLS and dedicated cloud networks, Aryaka has always delivered measurably faster, more reliable and more consistent results."
The results, based on multiple measurements between Aryaka and Internet or dedicated cloud networks (ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, MPLS), highlights the difference in Aryaka's approach to application delivery.
Alternative providers could point out that the measurements across the traditional ISP networks do not include compression, TCP optimisation and application proxies, services that were typically, in the past, provided not by ISPs but by specialised equipment vendors such as Riverbed and Xinda.
In response, Hardy observes: "Yes, on the one side, the comparison of Aryaka's network to Internet or even ExpressRoute or MPLS is unfair due to the Aryaka network being embedded with optimisation. However, given that Aryaka can be delivered to enterprise customers at the same price as dedicated Internet access, results in a direct comparison from a purchasing perspective. It would be like someone complaining that it's not fair to compare a Nokia 8210i with an iPhone X, even though they are the same price. Aryaka is only highlighting that Internet and MPLS providers are quickly falling behind innovation when it comes to addressing the significant growth and expectations of cloud application delivery," says Hardy.
Hardy believes network providers can no longer get away with not being responsible for measuring and enhancing application delivery. While Internet and even MPLS providers will continue to avoid the application discussion, new age providers like Aryaka, which provide application delivery, visibility and optimisation, will start becoming more mainstream.
Understanding why the Aryaka network can deliver as much as 40x performance improvements with as much as a 90% reduction in bandwidth used requires an understanding of the network components that make up its optimised global network:
Transfer speed: The significant difference in network and transfer speed between the Internet, MPLS or dedicated cloud networks and Aryaka comes down to application acceleration and data de-duplication. Application acceleration removes the effect of latency, resulting in up to 40x faster transfers, while data de-duplication caches locally at the customer edge, making data available faster and reducing load on the network.
Application speed: Application performance is measurably higher in Aryaka due to application proxies developed with leading SaaS providers to support faster connection and application handshakes in cloud. This has a direct impact on user experience and, in most cases, more than halves the application wait time.
Dedicated core: The Aryaka network is a dedicated global core network with lowest latency and 0% packet loss to ensure the best application performance at a network level, in comparison to the Internet, which is higher latency and packet loss.
Bandwidth reduction: Due to compression and data de-duplication, the Aryaka network uses, in some cases, up to 90% less bandwidth than the Internet or alternative dedicated cloud networks. This results in a comparative costing model with dedicated Internet, or a 50%+ cost reduction when compared to dedicated cloud networks.
Network QOS: The dedicated Aryaka network uses QOS on the core to prioritise your cloud and WAN applications, including voice and video. QOS is generally implemented for voice, video, and Citrix, as they cannot be optimised.
Application visibility: The network provides complete application visibility to cloud and can break down application performance to the user.
Fully managed: Aryaka provides a fully managed and optimised application network, removing the need for customers to implement, manage and scale complex optimisation solutions. The Aryaka support desk is CCIE first level, providing the highest level of engineering response available in the market.
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