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Silver Peak Introduces Unity EdgeConnect: The Industry's Most Complete, High-Performance Broadband and Hybrid WAN SolutionAs part of its strategy to deliver high-performing broadband and hybrid Wide Area Networks (WANs), Silver Peak (News - Alert) today unveiled its new Unity EdgeConnect solution that enables enterprises to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of building a WAN by leveraging broadband to connect users to applications. By empowering customers such as Group Dekko, Interroll, Kingston, and others to use broadband connections to augment or replace their current multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) networks, Silver Peak improves customer responsiveness, increases application performance, and significantly reduces capital and operational expenses. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150615005320/en/ Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect enables enterprises to quickly and easily build an SD-WAN with broadband. (Photo: Business Wire) "The high cost and limited capacity of WAN connectivity at our remote sites was becoming restrictive to our business and the productivity of our users," said Chris Edwards, VP of systems for Group Dekko, the leading provider of workplace LED lighting, power delivery solutions and engineered electrical components and assemblies. "With Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect, I can now build a broadband-based WAN that lowers my overall monthly data spend and maximizes the performance of all our applications, including the use of voice over broadband." Delivered in both physical and virtual form factors, Unity EdgeConnect creates a virtual network overlay, so that enterprises do not have to replace existing routers and firewalls at branch offices. With Unity EdgeConnect, customers can move to a broadband WAN at their own pace, whether site-by-site, or via a hybrid WAN approach that leverages both MPLS and broadband Internet connectivity (cable, DSL, LTE, etc.). This is often referred to as software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). Unity EdgeConnect is an overlay solution, which means connectivity decisions are made inependent of carriers, avoiding lengthy procurement and deployment delays for faster time to service. Connectivity can be rapidly extended, moved or changed where and when the business demands. With a zero-touch, plug-and-play deployment model, Unity EdgeConnect can be deployed at a branch office in seconds, automatically connecting with other Silver Peak instances in the data center, other branches, or in cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure and VMware's vCloud Air. Key features of Unity EdgeConnect include:
"With an ever-increasing number of applications delivered as a service via cloud infrastructure, it's important that enterprises be able to move at cloud speed," explained David Hughes (News - Alert), founder and CEO of Silver Peak. "Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is the premier solution for customers that want to leverage the Internet more effectively in a secure, controlled, and automated manner while delivering consistent and reliable performance for users connecting to any application." Granular Visibility and Control with Unity Orchestrator Unity Orchestrator is included with Unity EdgeConnect, and provides customers with unprecedented levels of visibility into both legacy and cloud applications, and the unique ability to centrally assign business intent policies to secure and control all WAN traffic. Key features of Unity Orchestrator include:
Boost Application Performance on the Fly When branch offices are deployed as part of a broadband or hybrid WAN, customers may require higher performance for specific applications, for example, accelerating replication data over distance for disaster recovery. Silver Peak Unity Boost is an optional performance pack that accelerates application performance as needed. With a click of a button, customers can subscribe to Unity Boost. Key features of Unity Boost include:
Delivering Real Business Value With the new Unity EdgeConnect solution, Silver Peak is the only company capable of creating the most agile broadband WAN that also powers industry-leading performance improvements to any form of connectivity. Silver Peak customers benefit from significant:
Pricing and Availability The new Unity suite of solutions is available today. Pricing for Unity EdgeConnect, which includes Unity Orchestrator begins at $199 per-site, per-month. Unity Boost is an optional performance pack that can be ordered on demand and is $5 per-megabit-per-second (Mbps), per-month. Enterprises can register for a free trial of Unity EdgeConnect on the Silver Peak website at www.silver-peak.com. About Silver Peak Silver Peak is the leader in building broadband and hybrid WANs. Silver Peak enables enterprises and service providers to flexibly and securely connect users to applications via the most cost-effective WAN connectivity available. With Silver Peak's solutions, customers can augment or replace MPLS networks with secure broadband connectivity, leveraging existing WAN investments while dramatically reducing ever-increasing WAN costs and complexity. Customers benefit from unprecedented levels of visibility, control and security over all traffic traversing the WAN, while improving application and network performance. With Silver Peak, sites can be rapidly and non-disruptively expanded, moved or changed as business demands evolve. Learn more at www.silver-peak.com. Note: Silver Peak Systems and the Silver Peak logo are trademarks of Silver Peak Systems, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.
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