Silver Peak Partners with KDDI Europe

Silver Peak and KDDI Europe have announced a formal global partnership and the immediate availability of new tiered managed SD-WAN services powered by the Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution.

EdgeConnect provides KDDI Europe with the ability to deliver a flexible range of tiered managed SD-WAN services that address the evolving WAN requirements of midsize and large cloud-connected enterprises, especially those with dozens to hundreds of geographically distributed locations.

EdgeConnect offers integrated WAN optimization and the ability to centrally orchestrate secure internet breakout on an application-by-application basis. The result is that enterprise customers can securely connect employees in branch locations directly to SaaS and cloud-hosted applications in accordance with service level agreements over any combination of transport, including broadband.

 

“Through our partnership with Silver Peak and the robust features and capabilities of the EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution, we are able fully address the requirements of our global customers and accelerate service revenues while quenching the burgeoning market demand for next generation WAN services including managed cloud connect,” said Nick Polydorou, deputy director of network sales for KDDI Europe. “Enterprises have shown significant interest in evaluating and deploying managed SD-WAN services and we are highly confident that with our new managed SD-WAN services, powered by Silver Peak, we will now have the ability to quickly and effectively accelerate new service delivery for our existing enterprise customers while attracting a significant number of new enterprise customers.”