Introducing your power team to enhance cloud communications and contact center performance across SD-WAN.
8x8 and Aryaka cloud-based services deliver the flexibility, simplicity, and scalability of the SaaS cloud consumption model, and Aryaka’s global footprint offers a perfect foundation for 8×8’s UCaaS and CCaaS offerings to achieve peak global performance.
Both companies are acknowledged leaders in their respective spaces: Gartner has named 8x8 a Leader 9 times running in the UCaaS Magic Quadrant and recognized them in the CCaaS Magic Quadrant 6 years in a row, while Aryaka has been named a strong performer in The Forrester Wave for Managed SD-WAN Services, and winner of ChannelVision’s 2020 Visionary Spotlight Award for SD-WAN & SD-Branch.
This partnership takes our cooperation to the next level.
The 8×8 Open Communications PlatformTM delivers voice, team chat, meeting, and contact center solutions for enterprises of all sizes. Our joint customers are provided optimized access to 8×8’s regional Points of Presence (PoPs) by leveraging the Aryaka backbone, eliminating the packet loss, latency, and jitter that can impact experience on the public internet. Regional on-ramps directly connect Aryaka PoPs to 8×8 services, creating an optimized topology. Customers benefit from real-time traffic management insights via the MyAryaka cloud portal that includes monitoring and reporting on 8×8 performance. Combined, this delivers the hands-off operation required by IT in a world where the one constant is change.
Enterprises are increasingly reliant on UCaaS and CCaaS to drive efficiency and meet customer demands. They expect high-quality experiences anytime, anywhere, and on any device. The underlying WAN infrastructure must therefore meet the demands of a flexible and dynamic workforce, while maintaining security and reliability. By leveraging the Aryaka backbone, 8×8 customers will not only have optimized performance for their collaboration applications, but also other applications they’ve moved to the cloud.
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Geographic Reach | Broad geographic UCaaS delivery capabilities across mature and developing markets and can meet the location requirements of many multinational organizations. | Global footprint with nodes/PoPs within 30ms of 95% of the world’s knowledge workers. Last-mile services deliver local ISP contracting and monitoring, easing adoption. |
Customer Satisfaction | Customer survey references rate 8×8 highly for voice quality and service reliability. | 65+ NPS and 4.8 Gartner Peer Insight including Customer Choice—highest for an SD-WAN provider. |
Service Enhancements | Expand R&D investments to improve UCaaS solution capabilities. | Additional investments in security, visibility with AI/ML, and scalability. |
Service Integration | Many customers value 8×8 for having an integrated UCaaS and CCaaS capability, which supports single sign-on, shared presence and directories, extension-to-extension dialing, and team collaboration through its X Series integration. | Aryaka’s SmartServices are a tightly-integrated set of cloud-first WAN offerings that combine connectivity, orchestration, a global footprint with dedicated L2 links, security, multi-cloud, network and application optimization, and real-time visibility and co-management. 8×8 services and performance are visible via the MyAryaka portal. |
Reliability | Average core uptime—the ability to process inbound and outbound calls on the network—has been 99.999% for the past 12 months globally. | The Aryaka core averages close to a 5-9s uptime, while customers at the edge have highly resilient access options that ensure failsafe and loss-free connectivity. |
Security | 8×8 meets the advanced NIST/FIPS encryption standards. This includes TLS 1.2 in encryption in motion and AES 256 encryption at rest. 8×8 also provides advanced encryption of the actual voice media including Secure SIP of TLS and Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) with AES 256. | Our core offering is highly secure with fully partitioned resources, end-to-end encryption, and hosted in secured data centers. As part of our managed SD-WAN service, we offer a combination of edge and cloud-based security leveraging both our own technology as well as that from Tier-1 security partners including Palo Alto, Symantec, and Zscaler. |
Voice Quality | 8×8 delivers superior voice quality (MOS–Tolly report) and security certifications (NIST 800-53). | Our core stability and optimization technology delivers a global MOS of 4+ while competitors with the same demanding traffic flows only average in the 2s and 3s. |