What is Cloud Area Networking?

Alkira Cloud Area Networking is the fastest way to unify clouds, sites, and users.

Simply auto-connect your clouds, sites, users, colocations, and even SD-WAN fabrics. Instantly deliver networking that solves on prem to cloud, cloud networking, and multi-cloud networking challenges. And for your site-to-site and Internet/SaaS applications. All with single-pane visibility, HA, and segmentation. We automate all the tedious network plumbing for you.

With Alkira Cloud Area Networking, you can deliver secure, end-to-end networking in hours instead of months. One cloud or many. Enjoy an elastic network that scales up and down based on business demand. The only enterprise-grade network built 100% in the cloud. Agentless. And delivered as-a-service. With Alkira, your network team will move faster. Manage less. And save more.

Overview

You’re investing in speed everywhere in IT. Embracing cloud. Hyper-automation. And as-a-service delivery.

But legacy networks just weren’t designed for this new era of agility.

Instead, network engineers and architects find their do-it-yourself projects hopelessly bogged down by:

• Manual configurations
• Unique cloud constructs
• Vendor and tool sprawl
• Visibility blind spots
• And seemingly impossible network services insertion challenges

Until now.

Say hello to Alkira Cloud Area Networking.

Figure 1: The Alkira Cloud Area Networking Architecture

A clean-sheet network architecture. Built from the ground up to deliver on the agility promise of the cloud era.

Alkira Cloud Area Networking is a full stack, edge-to-cloud, enterprise-grade network. With built-in routing and network services. 100% cloud-built. And delivered as-a-service.

Just simply auto-connect your clouds, sites, users, and even SD-WAN fabrics. Instantly deliver networking for site-to-site, Internet/SaaS applications, and to, within, and across clouds. All with single-pane visibility, HA, and segmentation. We automate all the tedious network plumbing for you.

Immediately spin up and autoscale best-of-breed network services from your favorite vendor. They’re fully integrated into your new network. No more complicated routing domains. No more overprovisioning. No more security compromises. And no more deployment delays.

With Alkira Cloud Area Networking, you can stand up new global networks and cloud onramps in hours instead of months. One cloud or many. And for the first time, enjoy an elastic network that scales up and down based on business demand.

And the best thing about Cloud Area Networking? It’s delivered as a service. No hardware to buy. No software to download. No cloud to learn. With Alkira your network team will move faster. Manage less. And save more.

Welcome to Alkira Cloud Area Networking. The fastest way to the cloud.

Alkira Cloud Area Networking is The Fastest Way To:

Connect Anything

Welcome to a network delivered entirely in the cloud. Just simply auto-connect your clouds, sites, users, and even SD-WAN fabrics. Instantly deliver secure remote user access, on-prem to cloud connectivity, and resiliency/disaster recovery. We automate all the tedious network plumbing for you.

Now you can immediately spin up and autoscale best-of-breed network services from your favorite vendor. They’re fully integrated into your new network. Easily extend your proven network services from on-prem to cloud. No more complicated routing domains. No more overprovisioning. No more security compromises. And no costly colo or DC build outs.

Unify Everything

Cloud, network, and vendor silos compromise compliance, network segmentation, and troubleshooting. You need one network, not many.

Alkira Cloud Area Networking immediately unifies your users, sites, and clouds. Thinking about end-to-end compliance? Easily extend segmentation from your on-prem networks to the cloud. Your CSP doesn’t provide native segmentation. We do from day one.

You can’t effectively troubleshoot across a sprawl of tools and interfaces. Alkira comes with built-in monitoring, alerts, packet capture, and insights. Built-in overlapping IP address detection and remediation. Network-wide. Down into every VPC and VNet. All in a single, intuitive pane.

Need global high performance for your unified network? Your application traffic will be routed along our low latency, high availability cloud backbone.

Scale Everywhere

Multi-cloud on your IT roadmap? With Alkira, you’ll treat every cloud the same – they’re just simple constructs in our portal. No cloud to learn. No restrictive cloud limits to work around. Multi-cloud support is built-in. Adding a new cloud is as simple as drag-and-drop.

Stop adding technical debt with one-off, unmaintainable network deployments. The Alkira Cloud Area Network is built for the future. Repeatable. Blueprinted. Automated. And fully integrated into your CI/CD pipeline for maximum operational agility. For maximum agility, provision your entire edge, core, and cloud network entirely with a common workflow.

And for the first time, deliver a unified policy posture across your entire on-prem and cloud network.

And Best of All, It’s Delivered as a Service

No hardware to buy. No software to download. No cloud to learn. No cloud limits to work around.

Your new network is elastic. Temporarily increase capacity to handle spikes in usage. Scale to demand. Only pay for what you use.

And no more technical debt to choke your agility and limit future options. All that network plumbing is now fully automated. With Alkira your network team will move faster. Manage less. And save more.