Managed secure access service edge (SASE) provider Masergy this week unveiled its latest product, which promises to make public broadband perform more like private Ethernet.

Dubbed Masergy Performance Edge, the platform works in conjunction with the company’s managed Fortinet SD-WAN and SASE offerings to minimize packet loss when using public broadband.

Broadband often fails to meet expectations, especially for real-time applications like voice and video conferencing, the company claims, pointing to a recent study by Altman Solon, which found half of IT leaders relying on public broadband said the performance was inadequate.

As a result, any savings realized by the shift away from MPLS circuits to broadband is often canceled out by losses in productivity and revenue, Masergy claims, adding its new platform can reduce costs by 70% over private circuits while also reducing service outages through integrations with its artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) platform.

With more enterprises embracing remote and hybrid work models, these challenges are becoming more prevalent, Masergy CEO Chris MacFarland noted in a statement. “Remote work success shouldn’t hinge on network connectivity types and we’ve created Masergy Performance Edge to make sure it doesn’t,” he said.

Meanwhile, managed service provider GTT Communications this week launched new, co-managed SD-WAN capabilities into its EtherVision management portal.

The new service tier enables customers to take control of SD-WAN policies including those for application routing, quality of service, and security functions like firewall policy and object management.

In addition to exposing management capabilities to customers, the portal also includes detailed telemetry into threat events, packet loss, latency, jitter, traffic volume, and other network metrics, which the company said will help its customers to make more informed decisions.

The new offering will enable customers to react more quickly to the evolving threat landscape while enabling them to optimize their network utilization, GTT COO Don MacNeil said in a statement: “It’s an example of how we’re listing to our customers and evolving self-service capabilities to meet their changing cloud network requirements.”

Finally, this week SD-WAN vendor Aryaka scored a contract win from Vodafone Fiji to address cloud connectivity challenges on the island.

According to Aryaka, cloud tenants in the region are largely hosted in Sydney and Singapore, which means businesses in the Pacific Islands often face challenges with latency and bandwidth resulting in reduced application performance.

The vendor operates a global private network of edge locations in 30 cities, including Sydney, Singapore, and Aukland, New Zealand, which it claims are ideally located to address these challenges.

Australia’s Market Development Facility, which promotes sustainable economic development in the region, is among the first Vodafone customers to deploy the offering, and Vodafone is also using the platform internally.