Unity EdgeConnect™ Hardware Platforms
EdgeConnect US | EdgeConnect XS | EdgeConnect S | EdgeConnect M | EdgeConnect L | EdgeConnect XL | |
Part Identifier |
EC-US |
EC-XS |
EC-S |
EC-M |
EC-L |
EC-XL |
Typical Deployment |
Small Branch/ Home Office |
Small Branch |
Large Branch |
Head Office Small Hub |
Data Center Large Hub |
Data Center Large Hub |
Typical WAN Bandwidth |
1-100 Mbps |
2 - 200 Mbps |
10 - 1000 Mbps |
50 - 2000 Mbps |
1 - 5 Gbps |
2 - 10 Gbps |
Simultaneous Connections |
256,000 |
256,000 |
256,000 |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
Recommend Boost up to |
25 Mbps |
50 Mbps |
200 Mbps |
500 Mbps |
1 Gbps |
5 Gbps |
Redundancy / FRUs |
No |
No |
No |
Power and SSD |
Power and SSD |
Power and SSD |
Datapath Interfaces |
3 x RJ45 10/100/1000 |
4 x RJ45 10/100/1000 |
6xRJ45 EC-S-SR/EC-S- LR - Dual 1/10 Gbps short- reach (SR) or long-reach (LR) fiber optical module (Optional) |
EC-M-B: 4xRJ45 plus 2 x 1/10 Gbps fiber; Fail-to-Glass (Bypass) EC-M-P: 4 x RJ45 plus 2xSFP+ (Pluggable) |
EC-L-B/EC-L-B- NM*: 4 x RJ45 plus 2 x 1/10 Gbps fiber; Fail-to-Glass (Bypass) EC-L-P/EC-L-P- NM*: 4 x RJ45 plus 2 x SFP+ (Pluggable) |
EC-XL-B/EC-XL- B-NM*: 4x1/10 Gbps fiber; Fail-to-Glass (Bypass) EC-XL-P/EC-XL- P-NM*: 4xSFP+ (Pluggable) |
Platform Specification Sheets
Unity EdgeConnect Technical Support
Term |
Support is included as part of the EdgeConnect subscription license |
Web-based Support Portal |
Unlimited access 24 / 7 / 365 includes software downloads, technical documentation, and online knowledge base |
Software Updates |
Major and minor features releases; maintenance releases |
Technical Support |
24 / 7 / 365 Phone / E-mail / Web |
Response Time |
2 Hours |
HW Warranty and Maintenance |
Refer to the EdgeConnect Warranty and Maintenance Policies Data Sheet for further information |
Flexible Deployment Models
- UnityEdgeConnect™ Virtual (EC-V) – Download and install EdgeConnect from anywhere in the world. The software runs on all common hyper- visors, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and KVM. Silver Peak customers who have an IaaS presence in AWS, Microsoft Az- ure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Google Cloud Platform can deploy EdgeConnect within their hosted cloud environment.
- EdgeConnectPhysical (EC) – Forenterprisesthat are not virtualized in the branch, choose one of six EdgeConnect hardware appliance models for plug- and-play deployment.
Unity EdgeConnect Subscription Licensing
Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect licenses are sold as a subscription, in either single or multi-year increments (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 years) at multiple bandwidth tiers.
EdgeConnect includes Unity Orchestrator™ that can be installed either on premise or in a customer’s virtual private cloud. An optional cloud-hosted Orchestrator license provides a highly reliable alternative deploy- ment model supporting all Orchestrator features withoutthecomplexityofmanagingonpremisevirtual compute and storage resources. Unity Boost™ WAN Optimization is an optional WAN Optimization perfor- mance pack that may be ordered and deployed flexibly to sites that require application acceleration. Boost is offered in 100Mbps or 10G blocks.