Aryaka today announced HybridWAN, which is the latest evolution of its SD-WAN offering.

The HybridWAN update provides customers with greater flexibility by allowing them to route low-priority traffic over traditional broadband or 4G LTE and business-sensitive traffic over Aryaka's Layer-2 core.

"We see HybridWAN as a catch-all for a number of different types of connectivity when connecting services," said David Ginsburg, VP of products and solutions marketing at Aryaka.

Aryaka's HybridWAN also introduces a zone-based firewall that the company claims allow customers to separate employee traffic from the network perimeter and external LAN. It also has micro-segmentation to support multi-tenancy.

“Aryaka has been at the forefront of these two trends, offering the first truly global managed SD-WAN Service,” said Aryaka Chief Marketing Officer Shashi Kiran, in a statement. “We’re now enhancing this even further with additional flexibility and choice, but not at the expense of added complexity such as when an enterprise must manage different WAN providers and technologies or a traditional MPLS service where direct cloud connectivity takes extra effort.”

By leveraging these technologies, the company says it has built a service that leverages edge intelligence, security, application optimization, and visibility to deliver a seamless WAN experience, all while cutting WAN hardware costs and reducing management workload.

According to John DeBella, director of infrastructure management at Teradyne, who was cited in the announcement, Aryaka's HybridWAN significantly reduced the time required to prioritize and route traffic across the company's numerous transportation technologies.

“Before Aryaka’s HybridWAN offering, we were using multiple technologies and spending a huge amount of time prioritizing critical traffic," DeBella said in a statement. "With HybridWAN, we’ve been able to consolidate, centralize, and simplify our network and have even more flexibility to prioritize our most critical traffic."

Aryaka earlier this month slid into the Oracle's Cloud Marketplace after securing "Integrated with Oracle Cloud" status. The collaboration means Oracle Cloud users can take advantage of Aryaka's SD-WAN technology either using Oracle FastConnect or using IPsec VPNs. 

Aryaka's approach to SD-WAN has allowed it to capture a significant share of the highly competitive market. According to a IHS Markit report from July, Aryaka was the market’s third-largest vendor with 11.6% market share. It trailed only VMware and Cisco.