
Network Infrastructure on Demand
Alkira Cloud native Networking and Backbone
Alkira was founded in 2018 in San Jose CA by Amir and Atif Khan, the second venture of the visionary team that founded the SD-WAN market with Viptela.
Astrotel now offers Alkira, Network Infrastructure on Demand, in APAC.
Alkira provides a global Cloud native, Network on Demand platform, running entirely on the Hyperscaler infrastructure.
It allows Enterprises to connect on-premise sites, users, devices, applications and cloud instances, as one integrated network, using a single interface, set up in hours, with no upfront cost and no hardware or software required.
It comes with advanced routing, redundancy and Zero Trust Network Access security (ZTNA) built in.
- All of the benefits of the Cloud – set up in hours, no hardware, infinitely scalable, with all of the sophisticated features of Enterprise networking – advanced routing, global segmentation, performance visibility and management .
- Add next-gen firewalls from any of the major vendors.
- Connect once via a last mile technology such as internet or IP Sec, or to one Cloud provider using express route or direct connect, and then traverse the Alkira platform to any other site, user, application or cloud instance.
- Improve redundancy with Cross Region and Cross Cloud failover and 99.9% Uptime Guarantee.
- Pay only for what is consumed, reduce number of firewalls, direct connects / express route connections required.




Alkira can be used:
As a Backbone connects data centres to any Cloud in minutes for high speed, low latency, inter-city and inter-country transport, at a fraction of the cost of traditional backbone.
As a Network to link all on-premise users, data centres and multi or hybrid Cloud requirements. Add a new cloud with drag and drop.
As an Extranet to bring Third parties to the network, with segmented access permissions across shared applications
Suitable for clients in:
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Media & Entertainment
- Retail
- Manufacturing
Reference clients include:

"We replaced our Global Service Provider Backbone with Alkira"
Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, S&P Global


"We replaced our Global Service Provider Backbone with Alkira"
Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, S&P Global