Silver Peak Adds 100 New SD-WAN Customers

Enterprises of all sizes turning to Silver Peak to leverage broadband for their WAN

Silver Peak, the leader in building software-defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs), today announced that it has signed 100 new, paying customers of the industry’s most complete SD-WAN solution, Unity EdgeConnect, in the past nine months. These new customers are in addition to the more than 200 customers already using SD-WAN solutions from Silver Peak.

New EdgeConnect customers represent a variety of industries including Architecture, Automotive, Building Performance, Energy, Financial, Health and Fitness, High Technology, Insurance, Legal and Retail. A few of the latest SD-WAN customers include, Interroll, Kamps Propane, Lionakis, Patrick K Willis, Scapa, Shelby American and Spare Time Clubs.

Interroll, headquartered in Sant’Antonino, Switzerland, is a leading provider of high-quality core products for internal logistics. As the company grew the IT team wanted centralise their application services, but that would mean an estimated 5X increase in MPLSservices and a 30 percent increase in costs. Silver Peak was selected for its’ flexibility, performance and experience in WANdeployment.

“With a Silver Peak overlay across our WAN, we are able to connect our offices without a lot of work,” said Giuseppe Genovesi, head of corporate IT at Interroll. “With other vendors, SaaS optimisation is a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Silver Peak lets us determine how our traffic flows so we can, for example, direct our Far East traffic around problematic regions. Since the deployment, Silver Peak has made a huge improvement to our business productivity and we are able to better service our customers, providing them with a much faster, leaner and more customised approach.”

As a result of the company’s successful deployment, Interroll can now make the most of internet connectivity, the most cost-effective source of connectivity available. “The internet has opened up many doors for our company, and without Silver Peak that would not have been possible,” concludes Genovesi.

Scapa, a leading global manufacturer of bonding and adhesive components in the healthcare and industrial sectors, selected Silver Peak and EdgeConnect to boost performance between the data centre in the UK and a manufacturing factory located in a remote location in Italy, initially over a 2 Mbps link and later a 10 Mbps link. 

“The alternative would be to use a fibre network which was impractical and not cost effective,” said Mark Brookes, IT manager at Scapa.  “During the trial period the technology proved successful in improving and boosting performance of network traffic; mainly comprising web, SAP, email and file transfer data,” Brookes concluded. 

Silver Peak partners also continue to play a critical role in the company’s growth. In addition to Dell’s involvement with Shelby, Delta Systems Associates (DSA) is building a business around Silver Peak’s SD-WAN solution. DSA is the partner that handles the professional services for the installation with Spare Time Health Clubs, Kamps, and PK Willis and two other recent SD-WANdeployments, all in just a few months of offering EdgeConnect. It also delivers SD-WAN as a managed service for customers such as Lionakis.  

“SD-WAN has opened up many new opportunities for us and it’s one of the hottest topics our customers want to know about,” said Michael Pearson, Founder and CEO of DSA Technologies. “There is so much value to the customer and to us as partner, we believe working with Silver Peak and helping our customers build a better WAN is a game-changer for us and the industry.”

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. In addition to the customers leveraging Silver Peak’s pure SD-WAN solution, EdgeConnect, more than 200 customers that rely on Silver Peak for its WAN Optimisation products have upgraded their software to benefit from SD-WAN certain features such as Dynamic Path Control, Path Conditioning and centralised orchestration.