Today, Nile introduced a new addition to its access service which increases security, reduces IT's workload, and lowers infrastructure costs.  To find out more, VMblog spoke with Özer Dondurmacioglu, vice president, product marketing at Nile, Inc. 

VMblog:  Before we get started, can you give VMblog readers a quick background on Nile and its approach to providing a solution for the enterprise access network?

Özer Dondurmacioglu:  Nile is disrupting the enterprise wired and wireless access networking industry with its Nile Access Service, delivering a complete hardware and software technology stack vertically integrated with lifecycle management services. It is offered via an efficient per-user or per-square-foot pricing model on a per-building basis with an industry-first guaranteed performance on coverage, capacity, and availability. It automates traditionally manual network operations workflows with AI, eliminates unnecessary features that enterprise IT organizations no longer use, and translates zero-trust networking principles to campus and branch locations to segment and isolate all connected devices across the LAN. Nile Access Service enables IT organizations to reallocate expensive capital and critical resources toward vital IT initiatives.

VMblog:  What is Nile announcing?

Dondurmacioglu:  Today, we're adding another service offering to our portfolio, improving our zero-trust networking capabilities. It's called Nile Guest Service, which allows enterprises to completely isolate guest internet traffic from their corporate resources and reduce risk. Nile Guest Service isolates visitor traffic from internal network resources by automatically tunneling it to the closest Nile point of presence (PoP), from where it is forwarded directly to the internet.

VMblog:  We've heard the term Network-as-a-Service or NaaS a lot recently. How does Nile define this solution?

Dondurmacioglu:  At Nile, our innovations are not just providing another enterprise network solution but defining an entirely new market segment. One built from the ground up to meet the connectivity needs of this new age for IT. Unlike legacy approaches, Nile is founded on the tenets of rigorous security, unrelenting simplicity, and a fundamentally new operations model backed by cloud native principles that deliver fully automated lifecycle management. The level of operational simplicity and automation that Nile provides, combined with zero-trust security "baked in" to infrastructure, really sets us apart. Most legacy NaaS offerings are traditional wired and wireless access networking products - each with their own software releases, distinct product models and SKUs, and relevant configuration complexity - hidden by a curtain of professional and consulting services, wrapped inside a monthly or annual billing cycle.

VMblog:  What makes NIle's approach to secure guest access different from existing solutions?

Dondurmacioglu:  Nile Guest Service is an excellent example of the new approach in Nile's core architecture, as it delivers an incredibly simple and secure solution to something that every IT network needs, but hates to spend resources on configuring hardware, as well as setting up and managing policies. Traditionally, enabling guest Wi-Fi access meant administrative overhead for IT teams, requiring them to update wireless LAN configuration, VLAN / IP subnet provisioning, firewall zone updates for traffic and device isolation, and usually manage an anchor controller and DHCP server in their DMZ.

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