Siemens Teamcenter

Let your engineering managers use Siemens Teamcenter to make smarter decisions regardless of their location. Silver Peak dramatically improves the performance of Siemens Teamcenter over distance. Customers report eliminating more than 80 percent of Teamcenter data from the WAN and shortening transactions by 70 percent. Web interfaces respond faster and transfering files takes less time. With Silver Peak, accessing project data with Teamcenter becomes as fast between offices as within the office.

The Teamcenter web-based Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution allows companies, suppliers, and customers to share information in a secure environment. While responsive within the office, Teamcenter performance can degrade over distance. Downloading CAD files from Teamcenter takes longer and replicating Teamcenter databases offsite may be impossible within the company’s recovery point objectives (RPOs).

The problem has little to do with Teamcenter and far more to do with the underlying network. As applications extend across  private network services, such as MPLS, and Internet virtual private networks (VPNs) delay increases and with it TCP performance decreases, independent of the amount of bandwidth. And it's not just the distance between locations that increases delay, but also the network congestion, routing policies, and peering practices of the intervening provider networks.

Silver Peak addresses these and other problems, enabling IT to deliver a more responsive, more predictable Teamcenter experience to remote location. During customer testing, Silver Peak reduced TeamCenter transaction times from 105 seconds to 30 seconds, a more than 70 percent improvement, and eliminated more than 80 percent of Teamcenter data from the WAN. Specifically, Silver Peak addresses the following challenges:

• Bandwidth – Silver Peak byte-level deduplication removes redundant data from the WAN. The first time Teamcenter sends data, it is fingerprinted and compressed by Silver Peak. Subsequent requests are fulfilled by the local Silver Peak instance. 
• Latency – Silver Peak mitigates latency enabling Teamcenter to operate more efficiently over distance. Most Teamcenter transactions benefit from TCP Acceleration includes windows scaling, selective acknowledgements, and HighSpeed TCP. Accessing a remote data store or sharing files is also shortened through CIFS Acceleration, which includes CIFS read-ahead, CIFS write-behind, and CIFS metadata optimizations. Latency is also reduced through packet coalescing, which re-packages multiple smaller packets into a single larger one, and through Dynamic Path Control, which selects the fastest path to a remote location.
• Congestion – Silver Peak makes Teamcenter performance more predictable across congested WANs. Lost packets are reconstituted in real-time at the far end of a WAN link, avoiding delays that come with multiple round-trip retransmissions. Out-of-order packets are resequenced, avoiding retransmission and processing delays that occur when packets arrive out-of-order.

Silver Peak protects Teamcenter data in-flight between locations with an Accelerated IPSec virtual private network (VPN) running AES-256, the enterprise standard for data encryption. Data-at-rest in Silver Peak instances is also encrypted with AES. End-to-end encryption is provided by SSL/TLS.

Silver Peak offers the most scalable and cost-effective data acceleration software for connecting data centers, remote offices and the cloud. Download and deploy it yourself in just 20 minutes or contact us to see how Silver Peak can help your team.