Silver Peak SD-WAN Deployment Guide

Licensing

Unity Edge ConnectSilver Peak technology that transports and optimizes traffic between sites in the network. licensing is offered with various levels of performance to match your network and avoid costly overhead. All licenses are managed by the Cloud PortalThe Silver Peak internet portal. All devices must be able to connect to the Cloud Portal to take advantage of Silver Peak features..

Silver Peak licenses are consumed as a subscription, sold in 1, 3, 5 and 7 year increments:

• Unity EdgeConnect - use any physical or virtual device; OrchestratorFormerly GMS. Silver Peak global management software. Manages, provisions, and monitors Silver Peak devices within a network. is a required virtual appliance included in your subscription at no cost.
  • BASE - Floating license for Zero Touch Provisioning (see Appliance Provisioning (ZTP), Dynamic Path Control (DPC), and Path ConditioningPath Conditioning is a key feature of Unity EdgeConnect and is needed for any broadband WAN (a.k.a. SD-WAN) deployment as it provides private-line-like performance over the public Internet. Path Conditioning overcomes the adverse effects of dropped and out-of-order packets that are common with broadband Internet and MPLS connections. including FECForward Error Correction. When Adaptive Forward Error Correction (FEC) is enabled, the appliance introduces a parity packet, which helps detect and correct single-packet loss within a stream of packets, reducing the need for retransmissions. Silver Peak dynamically adjusts how often this parity packet is introduced in response to changing link conditions. This maximizes error correction while minimizing overhead. and POCPacket Order Correction. To avoid retransmissions that occur when packets arrive out of order, Silver Peak appliances use Packet Order Correction (POC) to resequence packets on the far end of a WAN link, as needed..
  • BOOST - License for WANWide Area Network Optimization (per 100Mbps); includes Silver Peak Network AccelerationAddresses high WAN latency and TCP chattiness. This is achieved using standard TCP acceleration techniques, such as adjustable windows and selective acknowledgments. and Network MemoryAddresses limited bandwidth. This technology uses advanced fingerprinting algorithms to examine all incoming and outgoing WAN traffic. Network Memory localizes information and transmits only modifications between locations..
  • PLUS - License for over 200Mbps throughputThe average rate of successful message delivery over a communication channel..
  • SaaS - Fabric-wide license for SaaS and IaaS optimization.