Service King Collision Repair Centers Joins the Growing List of Silver Peak SD-WAN Customers

Singapore, 22
July 2016 – Silver Peak, the
leader in building software-defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs), today
announced Service King Collision Repair Centers headquartered in Richardson,
Texas, one of the largest operators of high-quality collision repair services
in the U.S., is the latest enterprise to purchase and deploy the Silver Peak
Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution. Leveraging the Silver Peak solution, Service
King will deploy broadband at each of its more than 300 collision repair
locations, saving significantly on annual managed router services costs.

Through its ongoing strategic national growth
initiative, Service King aims to implement a secure, scalable and ultimately
cost-effective network design across its footprint. In an effort to do so, the
team evaluated SD-WAN solutions to enhance the network.

With Silver Peak’s EdgeConnect, Service King is able
to increase network performance by rapidly deploying broadband at both existing
and new locations, immediately migrating all locations to the company’s WAN. By
leveraging Silver Peak, Service King aims to eventually convert to
broadband-only WAN.

“Silver Peak’s EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution
brings an unparalleled level of flexibility to our network and allows Service
King to connect users to our corporate network in record time,” said Derek
Kramer, Chief Information Officer of Service King. “Not only are we going to
increase network performance, we are aiming to significantly reduce our
cost-to-serve by moving to broadband.”

As Service King evaluated ways to build a better WAN,
it quickly determined SD-WAN was the right solution as the industry-leading
organization preferred to bring broadband into the mix. During its evaluation,
the company determined that the Silver Peak solution not only delivered
phenomenal performance, its high-end encryption and WAN hardening security
features also met its underlying regulatory requirements.

Service King was introduced to Silver Peak through its
relationship with Dell as a complement to its existing Dell networking switches
being deployed at the branch. In addition to all of the SD-WAN features Silver
Peak brings to Service King, an added value is that EdgeConnect also serves as
the edge router. For the hybrid sites with existing branch routers, EdgeConnect
is the router for Internet access.

“The combination of the end-to-end Dell IT
infrastructure and Silver Peak’s SD-WAN solution delivers the kind of improved
network and application performance Service King requires in the data center
and branches,” stated Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell
Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure. “Silver Peak’s focus on disruptive
SD-WAN solutions pairs nicely with Dell Networking’s strategy and results in
satisfied customers.”

“Service King is a great example of a forward-thinking
company that recognized they could build a better WAN by leveraging broadband
and our SD-WAN solution,” added Silver Peak Founder and CEO, David Hughes. “As
SD-WAN adoption continues to accelerate, customers are recognizing that
performance truly matters when using broadband. Solution providers not only
need to address using multiple forms of connectivity, those links must be
reliable and deliver superior performance.”

Unlike other SD-WAN solutions that focus simply on
allowing enterprises to leverage Internet connectivity, Silver Peak delivers a
level of broadband quality of service that increases the reliability and
security customers expect from a private line. 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.