Gartner Recognizes Silver Peak as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization

Singapore, May 26, 2016 — Silver Peak, the leader in building
software-defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs), today announced its position as
a Leader in Gartner’s May 2016 Magic
Quadrant for WAN Optimization.

According
to the report, Gartner now sees “enterprise network leaders moving their WAN
strategies toward new WAN architectures” including, Hybrid WAN, SD-WAN and
network function virtualization (NFV).

“We
believe our being positioned furthest in completeness of vision for WAN
Optimization is made possible by the strong WAN heritage Silver Peak has
carried for the past decade.” said John Vincenzo, senior vice president and
chief marketing officer of Silver Peak. “As demonstrated by our recent customer announcement, we’re quickly learning that
all WAN solutions, particularly SD-WAN solutions, aren’t created equal.
Performance matters and Silver Peak’s strength is improving application and
network performance.”

Unlike
other SD-WAN solutions that focus simply on allowing enterprises to leverage
Internet connectivity, Silver Peak uniquely delivers a level of broadband
quality of service that increases the performance, reliability and security
customers expect from a private line. Additionally, Silver Peak offers an
optional WAN optimization performance pack called Unity Boost that enables
customers to reduce bandwidth requirements and deliver even higher levels of
application performance over distance where and when they need it. With EdgeConnect as the foundation for
an SD-WAN, enterprises can improve the resiliency of their WAN, dynamically
balance traffic across multiple paths and increase application performance over
any source of connectivity.