The agreement between the two companies lead to improved employee productivity and customer experience for clients, something that is said to be even more important in the current work-from-anywhere environment.

Joint customers will gain optimised access to 8x8's regional unified communications as a service (UCaaS) points of presence (PoPs) across the Aryaka backbone, eliminating packet loss, latency, and jitter.

They will also receive real-time insights into traffic management, including monitoring and reporting on 8x8 performance.

"As a leader in the managed SD-WAN space, we're excited to be partnering with an acknowledged enterprise communications leader to offer our joint customers and partners a solution that leverages each of our strengths and directly addresses one of our key use cases," said Aryaka CEO Matt Carter.

"This is truly a 1+1=3 offering that creates the first truly global SD-WAN enabled UCaaS and contact centre-as-a-service (CCaaS) platform that addresses the digital transformation needs for enterprises of all sizes across the globe."

The two companies plan to co-market their combined products, and 8x8 will also resell Aryaka's managed SD-WAN service in conjunction with 8x8's UCaaS and CCaaS.

"8x8 is committed to helping global organisations meet their work-from-anywhere objectives that increase business responsiveness and resilience while enhancing employee productivity and customer experience," said 8x8 CEO Vik Verma.

"Extending the 8x8 Open Communications Platform with SD-WAN will provide enterprises with highly stable and productive employee, partner, and customer interactions across the globe. We already have an impressive track record of successful joint deployments with Aryaka at some of the most demanding global enterprises, and the expanded partnership will take the relationship to the next level."