InvenSense Deploys Aryaka SD-WAN to Meet Growing Business Needs

Sensor manufacturer InvenSense deployed Aryaka’s managed SD-WAN across its rapidly growing network to keep up with its growing market. InvenSense provides a sensor system on-chip that operates in a variety of devices including smartphones, tablets, optical image stabilization, and automobiles. “I would say it’s a pretty hot, fun space if you think of what sensors are in, and it’s just rapidly, rapidly growing” said Kenny Gilbert, chief information officer at InvenSense. This is why it chose to deploy Aryaka — “we needed to switch over to something that was scalable and very, very fast.” In 2016, InvenSense was purchased by Japan-based components manufacturer TDK for $1.3 billion in an IoT play. It is now part of its sensor-solutions group. Previously, InvenSense was using site-to-site virtual private networks (VPNs) for its, at the time, 16 sites. In addition, it was using Riverbed for WAN acceleration, but according to Gilbert it wasn’t configured correctly. He added that in his 20 to 25 years as a CIO he has had to deal with misconfigured Riverbed devices doing the opposite of what they should. “They’ll put it in, but they don’t manage it and maintain it, and so it over time can actually hurt you not help you,” he said.