SimplePay Selects Riverbed as SD-WAN Provider to Scale its Business Globally, Provide One-Click Connectivity to AWS and the Cloud

SINGAPORE – October 13, 2016
– Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, today announced that
SimplePay Group Pty Ltd (SimplePay), a leading global payment processing
services company, is using Riverbed SteelConnect as the backbone of a
software-defined infrastructure to deliver the agility, security and
flexibility required to scale its business globally.

SimplePay
opened its doors in Sydney in 2012, quickly establishing itself as a leading
payment processing company in Australia as a result of its market-leading bility
to securely process large volumes of transactions across markets and currencies
on a single platform. Its customers manage high volumes of transactions through
parking meters, online shopping carts and unattended kiosks, from anywhere in
the world.

Watch Video: SimplePay CTO talks to scaling business globally and
in the cloud with SteelConnect

As the
company expanded to serve new customers across a range of industries and
geographies, it became clear early on that its existing IT systems and
networking infrastructure – while working fine locally – wouldn’t be able to
keep up with the needs of a fast-growing, increasingly distributed operation. If
SimplePay won new business in the U.S. for example, it would have taken months
to provision the new site with cloud connectivity and access to the
business-critical applications and services it would need to run.

Because
every packet of data carries revenue, in looking for a new network solution, security
was paramount to SimplePay, as was business agility, given it automates many
elements of its business in order to keep head count low and run efficiently. The
solution also needed to be easy to manage, and enable the company to leverage
its existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment.

SimplePay
deployed Riverbed SteelConnect, a revolutionary SD-WAN solution that automates
cloud connectivity for hybrid cloud environments. Developed
to disrupt the ‘legacy’ network routing market, with the ability to replace
thousands of manually configured routers with virtual network design based on
zero-touch provisioning and easy change management, SteelConnect allows
organizations to create a single, software-defined networking spanning hybrid
WANs, cloud networks, and branch LAN/WLANs with a centralized cloud-centric
management workflow, application-based orchestration, and integrated security.
For SimplePay, SteelConnect supplies the internal backbone connection
between all of the virtual clouds SimplePay runs in AWS and provides a
consistent and secure connection anywhere in the world. This enables it to
deploy and connect new infrastructure anywhere in the world within minutes.

“We
don’t have to worry about security or reliability; we now have a fully encrypted
backbone that we’ve deployed using Riverbed at on- and off-ramp points,” said
Rob Gillan, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), SimplePay Group. “It’s an
environment that is almost unheard of – unmatched. There’s no truck roll,
there’s no staff needed, it literally is one of the simplest deployments I’ve
ever been involved in.”

“Unlike
traditional switching and routing vendors who have built their business on
delivering physical boxes to you, Riverbed has really embraced the
software-defined networking model and they have a solution with SteelConnect
that is easily deployable and absolutely reliable,” said Gillan.

SteelConnect
has allowed SimplePay to run a private network between all of its sites, and
easily talk to a server in the UK, Singapore or Australia just by typing a
private IP address. With services running in the UK, UAE, and Australia,
SimplePay also takes advantage of time zone differences, with transactions
taking place in Australia running on an entirely available infrastructure.