Silver Peak Announces High-Availability SD-WAN Architecture; Customers Achieve 99.999 Percent LAN/WAN Availability and Nonstop Business Operations

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Singapore, September 13,
2017 – Silver Peak, the global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions, today
announced a series of innovations to the award-winning Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution. Today’s advancements empower
cloud-connected enterprises to achieve 5 9’s of application availability across
the LAN and WAN edge with a high availability redundant hardware configuration,
subscribe to a new SD-WAN cloud orchestration-as-a-service and take advantage
of SaaS optimization with Cloud Intelligence, now integrated
into the EdgeConnect Base license at no additional charge.

Concurrently, Silver
Peak also announced today it has surpassed 500 production customer deployments
worldwide for its EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution.

The EdgeConnect SD-WAN
solution is available immediately in an active-active, high availability
cluster configuration that provides full hardware redundancy to maximize
application availability and minimize downtime across thin branch deployments.
Unlike cumbersome legacy router-based high availability configurations that
require box-by-box provisioning and management, redundant EdgeConnect
appliances can be quickly configured into a resilient cluster that is managed
as a single entity within Unity
Orchestrator. The optional
redundant hardware configuration extends the already robust high availability
software features of EdgeConnect that include: business intent overlays, dynamic
path conditioning and tunnel bonding with packet-based load sharing. The high
availability cluster maintains WAN and Cloud service redundancy via a single
interconnect between appliances that eliminates the added cost and complexity
of provisioning and managing multiple IP addresses for each appliance and WAN
service in the cluster. In the event of an EdgeConnect appliance failure within
a high availability cluster, the remaining active appliance carries all
applications traffic, enabling distributed enterprises to achieve 5 9’s of
network and application availability across the LAN and WAN edge and maintain
nonstop business operations.

“As SD-WAN facilitates
the advent of the thin branch – consolidating and architecturally simplifying
routing, security, and other network services at the WAN edge – distributed
organizations find they also require high availability and redundancy to achieve
application SLAs and to maintain business continuity,” said Brad Casemore,
research director, data center networks, IDC. “The Silver Peak EdgeConnect
SD-WAN was architected with the transition to the thin branch in mind, designed
to address both evolving SD-WAN requirements as well as the needs of a highly
available and resilient WAN edge.”

With an optional
license, enterprise customers can now subscribe to Unity
Orchestrator-as-a-service directly from Silver Peak. Orchestrator-as-a-service
provides a highly available, zero-CAPEX deployment alternative for customers
seeking a turnkey SD-WAN solution and eliminates the complexity associated with
managing on premise compute and storage resources. With a unique container
instance for each customer, Orchestrator cloud can provide secure SD-WAN
management, monitoring and reporting services for thousands of global
customers. Unlike other cloud-based network management systems that effectively
force all customers to upgrade software simultaneously, Silver Peak enables
each customer to control the software version they deploy and retain control
over upgrade cycles. Customers now have the flexibility to implement
Orchestrator across a range of use cases from direct on premise or public cloud
management to a turnkey Orchestrator-as-a-service deployment model.

The previously
optional SaaS optimization license has now been fully integrated into the
EdgeConnect Base license at no additional charge. With EdgeConnect appliances
deployed in data centers, branch offices and cloud interconnection hubs
including AWS and Microsoft Azure, the Silver Peak Cloud Intelligence service
aggregates continuously-changing information about SaaS providers, including
the physical locations where the providers’ data is being served, sharing
minute-to-minute updates on internet weather patterns. These updates are
automatically broadcasted to all EdgeConnect instances, enabling each location
to calculate the optimal end-to-end path for any user on the network to any
SaaS destination. For enterprises seeking to connect branch office employees
directly to SaaS-based applications, the combination of First-packet iQ, which identifies and classifies more than 10,000 applications
and 300 million web domains on the first packet received, and SaaS optimization
work in concert to assure a consistent and predictable user experience.

“Our latest
EdgeConnect innovations are available today and reflect our steadfast
commitment to listening, learning and adapting to the changing requirements of
our more than 500 production SD-WAN solution customers around the world,” said
Damon Ennis, senior vice president of products at Silver Peak. “We firmly
believe that this wealth of customer insight enables Silver Peak to
continuously innovate and extend the value of EdgeConnect across the most
diverse and demanding customer base in the industry.”

Silver Peak is the
global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions. Silver Peak offers a
high-performance SD-WAN solution that provides 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 2,000 globally distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak broadband
and hybrid WAN solutions across 80 countries. Learn more at silver-peak.com/.