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Silver Peak Launches New Global Channel Partner Program to Accelerate Customer Adoption of SD-WAN

New Program Enables Resellers to Capitalize on the Growing SD-WAN Market with the Industry’s Most-Complete SD-WAN Solution

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 24, 2015Silver Peak, the leader in building broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs), today announced the launch of the company’s new Global Partner Program specifically designed to attract, educate and enable valued channel partners to capitalize on the burgeoning software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN) market opportunity.

The new channel program is fundamental to Silver Peak’s global go-to-market strategy, as it takes the complexity out of building WAN solutions for enterprises and service providers.

“Silver Peak is providing an unprecedented opportunity for partners to help their customers reduce the high cost and complexity of MPLS networking by deploying broadband,” said Bob Bruce, senior vice president of worldwide channel sales, Silver Peak. “By increasing our channel investments and building relevancy around the SD-WAN opportunity, Silver Peak will intensify our focus on helping partners acquire net-new accounts. Ultimately, this program makes doing business with Silver Peak even easier, which is the key to sustaining our leadership in the SD-WAN market.”

With the program, Silver Peak is offering multiple new initiatives, each aimed at making the delivery of the company’s premier SD-WAN solution seamless:

“All of our customers rely on the WAN, and increasingly more on the cloud, to connect their users to applications,” said Tobi Sicklesteel, director of sales for AmeriNet. “However, the high cost of MPLS has many of our customers frustrated and looking for a way to leverage the Internet more effectively. With EdgeConnect, Silver Peak enables us to be at the forefront of the SD-WAN market, offering new and existing customers a unique solution. The scalability, flexibility and ease-of-deployment of the Silver Peak solution means that as our customer needs change, we can help them quickly add branch offices, increase performance and reduce costs."

With Unity EdgeConnect, Silver Peak is providing partners and their customers with a solution to rapidly and non-disruptively augment or replace their MPLS networks with any form of broadband connectivity. EdgeConnect provides unprecedented levels of visibility into both legacy and cloud applications, and gives the IT organization the unique ability to centrally assign business intent policies to secure and control all WAN traffic. The product significantly improves end-user satisfaction with consistent and significantly enhanced application performance. By filling this market gap, Unity EdgeConnect enables partners to dramatically lower their customers’ connectivity, equipment and network administration costs by up to 90 percent.

More information about the Silver Peak channel partner program can be found here: http://partners.silver-peak.com.

About Silver Peak

Silver Peak is the leader in building broadband and hybrid WANs. Silver Peak enables enterprises and service providers to flexibly and securely connect users to applications via the most cost-effective WAN connectivity available. With Silver Peak’s solutions, customers can augment or replace MPLS networks with secure broadband connectivity, leveraging existing WAN investments while dramatically reducing ever-increasing WAN costs and complexity. Customers benefit from unprecedented levels of visibility, control and security over all traffic traversing the WAN, while improving application and network performance. With Silver Peak, sites can be rapidly and non-disruptively expanded, moved or changed as business demands evolve. Learn more at www.silver-peak.com.

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