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Silver Peak and TPx Communications Announce Strategic Agreement for Tiered Managed SD-WAN Service DeliverySilver Peak, the global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions, and TPx Communications, the premier managed services carrier, today entered a strategic long-term global agreement that adds the Unity EdgeConnectSP SD-WAN solution to TPx's Managed SD-WAN delivery platform. EdgeConnect provides TPx with the ability to serve multi-location enterprises with international scope, delivering a range of tiered managed SD-WAN services architected to efficiently connect users to applications and overcome traditional WAN performance challenges. TPx evaluated multiple SD-WAN vendors and products as it sought to expand the set of offerings it brings to its enterprise customers with demanding requirements. The carrier was looking to build upon its SD-WAN expertise and leadership by adding a proven industry leader able to offer solutions for multi-national enterprises with sophisticated use cases and deployments of 50 or more sites. After rigorous evaluation, TPx selected Silver Peak (News - Alert) to provide a key building block of its SD-WAN strategy, including international expansion. Key Selection Criteria:
"We look forward to continuing our success in leveraging SD-WAN to help businesses grow and compete, with Silver Peak playing a role supporting our Managed SD-WAN Delivery Platform," said Jared Martin, vice president, TPx Communications. "Together with Silver Peak, we'll alleviate WAN deployment headaches like multiple provider footprints, complex routing protocols, skyrocketing expenses and limited connectivity and redundancy. Now we can bring customers tiered managed SD-WAN services that offer cloud-delivered, guaranteed performance that maintains seamless connectedness for our enterprise clients with evolving global needs." "Innovative service provider partners like TPx are leading the way forward in enabling domestic, multi-national and global enterprises to move beyond the cost, complexity and inefficiency of conventional router-centric WAN architectures to fully embrace the cloud with a managed application-driven WAN edge," said Shayne Stubbs, vice president of service provider and cloud for Silver Peak. "With the advanced features and capabilities of EdgeConnectSP, TPx can confidently deliver a robust set of tiered managed SD-WAN services that provide enterprises with flexible services to address both their core and advanced network requirements on demand." About Silver Peak 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 3,000 globally distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak broadband and hybrid WAN solutions across 80 countries. Learn more at silver-peak.com. About TPx Communications TPx Communications is a new kind of managed services provider - the premier national managed services carrier. TPx is redefining the way enterprises grow, compete and communicate. TPx's Unified Communications (News - Alert), Managed IT services, continuity and connectivity solutions all work together to "reach a higher state of connectedness" - with customers, employees, clients, suppliers, locations, applications and more. We can provide guaranteed performance wherever there's a broadband connection, erasing the limitations of geography, incumbent providers and capital expenditure. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with major locations across the country, TPx has delivered 15 years of consecutive quarter-over-quarter growth, driven by a DNA of obsessive customer service and word-of-mouth referral. For more information, go to www.tpx.com.
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