Silver Peak and China Telecom Shanghai Ideal Information Industry (Group) Co., Ltd Announce Global Partnership to Deliver Managed SD-WAN Services to Multinational Enterprises

Singapore, June 29, 2017 – Silver Peak, the
global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions, today announced a formal
partnership with China Telecom Shanghai Ideal Information Industry (Group) Co.,
Ltd. to deliver fully-managed SD-WAN services based on Silver
Peak Unity EdgeConnectSP and Unity Boost to
multinational enterprises. The new managed SD-WAN services enable China Telecom
to cost effectively address the international connectivity, performance and
security requirements for multinationals based in the PRC seeking to expand out
of region. It also enables China Telecom to attract new multinational clients
seeking to expand into and across the PRC.

China
Telecom evaluated a range of SD-WAN solutions and selected EdgeConnectSP
based on the completeness of its advanced features and capabilities – all
integrated into a single-device solution – with the added extensibility and
seamless integration with the China Telecom NetCare monitoring and management
platform. An additional advantage of the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution is that it
enables China Telecom to offer tiered
managed SD-WAN services, including SLA-based performance for on
premise and cloud-hosted applications. With the Unity
OrchestratorSP multi-tenant
orchestration integrated into CT NetCare, China Telecom will have the ability
to centrally manage and optimize network and application performance across a
complete range of enterprise use cases for existing and new clients.

The
Silver Peak partnership and EdgeConnectSP SD-WAN solution provide
China Telecom with the expanded global network reach it requires to serve
multinational clients with cost effective connectivity, leveraging commodity
broadband, while meeting each clients’ unique application Service Level
Agreements (SLAs). The partnership enables China Telecom to:

China
Telecom Shanghai Ideal Information Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. will partner with
Westcon-Comstor to offer fulfilment and integration services of the underlying
Silver Peak EdgeConnectSP SD-WAN solution. Utilizing the EdgeConnect
RESTful API, Westcon-Comstor has fully integrated EdgeConnectSP into
the CT NetCare unified customer network monitoring and management platform.
This enables China Telecom to offer real-time and proactive managed SD-WAN
service monitoring and management to existing and new clients.

“We are pleased to add managed SD-WAN services to our market
leading WAN services portfolio,” said Cao Zheng, manager of network management
expert business department, China Telecom Shanghai Ideal Information Industry
(Group) Co., Ltd. “By partnering with the industry leader Silver Peak, we can
accelerate growth and expand our customer base by offering cost effective
global WAN connectivity to our existing Chinese multinational clients and
attract new multinational clients that seek low-cost WAN connectivity across
their sites in China. Add to this the integration of EdgeConnectSP into our NetCare platform and we can proactively monitor
and manage each client’s SD-WAN service to deliver an exceptional customer
support experience.”

“We’re partnering with two industry leaders, Silver Peak and China
Telecom to bring managed SD-WAN services to our joint clients across China and
around the world,” said Wilson Ho, managing director, Westcon-Comstor,
Asia. “In addition to fulfilment and integration services we will
provide an in-country Silver Peak presence and the local expertise to expedite
managed SD-WAN service deployments to quickly bring the full power of SD-WAN to
our existing and new joint multi-national clients.”