Aramex Scales Up Branch Office Performance and Connectivity with SD-WAN

Aramex Scales Up
Branch Office Performance and Connectivity with SD-WAN

Reduces WAN Costs and
Boosts Application Performance by Leveraging Broadband Connectivity

SINGAPORE, January
25, 2017 – Silver Peak,
the leader in broadband and hybrid wide-area network (WAN) solutions, today
announced that Aramex, a leading global provider of comprehensive logistics and
transportation solutions, has deployed the Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution,
to scale up the organisation’s branch office application performance and
connectivity. The EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution delivers easy-to-deploy,
inexpensive broadband connectivity to branch offices while ensuring data and
applications are secure and perform to user expectations.

SD-WAN
solutions are fast gaining ground with enterprises around the world and
represent a nascent market that IDC predicts will reach $6 billion by 2020.

With over 17,000
employees working across 575 distinct locations spanning 70 countries, Aramex
sees high volumes of data being transferred and shared across its wide area
network, with a need for increased agility. The zero-touch nature of the
high-performance EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution injects the
flexibility that Aramex needs to continue to expand into new, unchartered
areas. With advanced software capabilities like path conditioning and dynamic
path control, the IT organisation can now deliver total performance over MPLS
and broadband and steer real-time traffic over any available link based on
company-defined business intent policies, assuring both application and network
performance.

“The high cost and
limited capacity of WAN-connectivity at our remote sites was becoming
restrictive to our business. Silver Peak has delivered reliable performance and
automation at our remote sites, freeing us up to open the doors to more
locations. With its zero-touch deployment model and its dynamic path
conditioning feature, EdgeConnect automates manual and time-consuming issues
while delivering increased performance and control,” notes Samer Awajan chief
technology officer, Aramex.

As application
migration from the data center to the cloud continues to accelerate, it’s
driving the need for geographically distributed enterprises like Aramex to re-evaluate
their networking requirements, including the adoption of broadband to connect
users to applications.

“With the Silver
Peak SD-WAN virtual overlay, Aramex has reshaped how it connects its people to
applications across hundreds of branch office locations, realizing significant
cost savings without compromising network or application performance,” said
John Vincenzo, senior vice president and CMO, Silver Peak.

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About Aramex:

Aramex (DFM: ARMX) is a leading global
provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions. Established
in 1982 as an express operator, the company rapidly evolved into a global brand
recognized for its customized services and innovative multi-product offering.
Traded on the NASDAQ from 1997 to 2002, Aramex today is a publicly traded
company on the Dubai Financial Market, employing more than 17,000 people in
over 575 locations across 70 countries and leads a strong alliance network
providing global presence, and bringing together 40 independent express companies
from around the world. The range of services offered by Aramex includes
integrated logistics solutions, international and domestic express delivery,
freight forwarding, secure records and information management solutions, and
e-services, including e-business solutions and Shop and Ship. For more
information, please visit us at www.aramex.com/.

About Silver Peak 

Silver Peak is the
global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions. Silver Peak offers a
complete range of best-in-class hardware, software and cloud-based WAN
solutions that provide secure and reliable virtual overlays to connect users to
applications with the flexibility to use any combination of underlying
transport without compromising application performance. This results in greater
business agility and lower costs. More than 2,300 globally distributed
enterprises have deployed Silver Peak broadband and hybrid WAN solutions across
more than 80 countries. Learn more at www.silver-peak.com/.