SD WAN

  • It’s Time to Shift to a New Business-First Networking Model

    Liberate your applications with Unity EdgeConnect, the unified SD-WAN edge platform, and realize the true transformational promise of the cloud.

SD-WAN Edge Overview

  • What is SD-WAN
    • What is SD-WAN?

    • What is SD-WAN?

      A Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture that provides enterprises with the flexibility to leverage any combination of transport services, including broadband internet, to securely connect users to applications. Today, applications are hosted in on-premise data centers, and increasingly in private or public clouds. Or they may be consumed as a subscription-based Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. Typical SaaS examples include Salesforce.com, Workday, Office365, Box and Dropbox.

      An SD-WAN virtualizes WAN services including Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband and 4G/LTE, treating them as a resource pool. Pre-defined policies, programmed by IT, specify per application group how traffic should be handled to meet priority, Quality of Service and security requirements according to business intent. An SD-WAN continuously monitors applications and network resources to intelligently and automatically steer traffic in accordance with these requirements in contrast to conventional routing based on TCP/IP addresses.

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  • Benefits of SD-WAN

    • Building a Better WAN with a Complete Solution

      Not all SD-WANs are created equal. By building a better WAN with Silver Peak, customers realize an extended range of benefits:

      • Lower WAN OPEX and CAPEX

      • Greater business agility and responsiveness

      • Increased application performance across the WAN

      • Assure business intent with advanced application visibility and control

      • Robust edge-to-edge security and micro-segmentation

      • Extensibility to 3rd party products via service chaining

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  • Choose an SD-WAN Vendor

    • All SD-WANs Are Not Created Equal

      While an SD-WAN is a critical component of building a better WAN, a complete solution must address a broader set of requirements:

      • Performance – Deliver predictable application performance and quality of service across the WAN

      • Visibility and control – See and control all applications and data running across the WAN

      • Security – Secure and segment all WAN traffic and applications

      • Extensibility – Able to service chain other WAN services and route across the WAN

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  • Move to an SD-WAN Edge Platform

    • Non-disruptive Migration to SD-WAN

      Adding SD-WAN to an existing WAN infrastructure couldn’t be simpler. With Silver Peak, it can be a seamless transition. During the migration, all existing WAN equipment, services and connections continue to operate as before. While it’s possible for EdgeConnect to replace existing WAN infrastructure, creating a virtual WAN overlay doesn’t require a forklift upgrade of existing routers or infrastructure at branch locations.

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Today’s SD-WAN Edge Options Force Compromise

  • OPTION 1

    Router-centric
    Model

    Businesses must conform to the constraints of the network.

    • Bottoms-up approach that starts with the device
    • Not built for the cloud era
    • Manual, slow delivery and change cycles

  • A BETTER WAY

    Business-first
    Networking Model

    Businesses liberate applications to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud.

  • OPTION 2

    Basic SD-WAN
    Model

    Businesses settle for less than what they really need.

    • Lack full orchestration or lifecycle automation
    • Limited to automated templates
    • Encrypted VPN overlay, lacks end-to-end segmentation

The Strengths of Our Unified SD-WAN Edge Platform

  • Business-driven SD-WAN Edge

    Business priorities are always reflected in the way the network behaves; business intent drives applications and network resources

  • Delivers Highest Quality of Experience

    End users enjoy always-consistent, always-available application performance; IT reclaims nights and weekends with high availability and resiliency

  • Continuous Adaptation

    Applies advancements in automation and machine-learning to power a self-driving wide area network that gets smarter every day

  • A Single Unified Platform

    Designed from the ground up to unify SD-WAN, firewall, segmentation, routing, WAN optimization and application visibility and control

Silver Peak Named a Leader

2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure

EdgeConnect: The Unified SD-WAN Edge Platform

Designed for today’s multi-cloud era

  • Full orchestration and lifecycle automation
    Go beyond basic zero-touch provisioning to an automated business intent driven model
  • Continuously enforce end-to-end segmentation
    Go beyond encrypted VPN overlays to centrally enforce end-to-end zone-based segmentation
  • Self-learning capabilities
    Go beyond automated templates to an outcome-oriented model that continuously adapts
  • Dynamic identification of millions of apps
    Go beyond manual ACL app definitions to securely and directly connect users to the cloud
  • Consistent data delivery via broadband
    Go from basic path selection to delivering a WOW user experience, even for voice and video
  • Seamless implementation of functions
    Go beyond service-chained VNFs to seamless holistic implementation of network functions

Representative EdgeConnect SD-WAN Projects

Go Beyond Software-defined to a Self-driving Wide Area Network

Silver Peak delivers a software platform that powers a self-driving wide area network, so IT leaders can tell the network what the business wants, then use automation and machine learning to just make it work.

Forward-thinking Companies Using EdgeConnect

  • We’ve realized a 15 percent gain in network and application performance and we’re on track to save more than $1.4M in connectivity costs.

    David Craig, Network Manager

  • We are now saving approximately $30,000 (over three years) and getting an increase in speed. The performance increase is dramatic.

    Greg Taylor, Manager, IT Infrastructure

Learn More About the Business-first EdgeConnect SD-WAN Edge Platform