Your network isn’t ready for AI. And your vendor isn’t telling you

### Executive summary This Aryaka whitepaper warns that traditional WAN/SD-WAN and many SASE solutions are not built for generative AI traffic patterns and advocates for AI-ready networking—private global backbones, dynamic path optimization for asymmetric traffic, inline low-latency security, unified observability, and managed operations—illustrating benefits with customer proof points and performance metrics while positioning Aryaka's Unified SASE as a Service as the solution.