Silver Peak Systems
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Networking hardware Software |
| Founded | California 2004 |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | David Hughes (CEO) Eric Yeaman (CFO) |
| Website | www.silver-peak.com |
Silver Peak develops products for the WAN.
Silver Peak helps enterprises and service providers flexibly and securely connect users to applications via the most cost-effective source of connectivity available.
With Silver Peak’s WAN solutions, customers can augment or replace MPLS networks with secure Internet connectivity, often referred to as an SD-WAN, while dramatically reducing WAN costs and complexity. Silver Peak 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 extended, moved, or changed as business demands evolve.
The company was founded in 2004 by David Hughes, who holds a PhD from Wollongong University and has been awarded more than 40 patents. Silver Peak shipped its first product, the NX-series hardware appliance, in September 2005.
See also: https://www.silver-peak.com/company
Products
Silver Peak's products fall under three categories: 1) finding connectivity alternatives in branch offices (EdgeConnect virtual and physical appliances), 2) improving application performance over distance (VX & NX appliances), and 3) accelerating replication workloads (VRX & NX appliances). Silver Peak offers both physical and virtual(software)[1] products for each use case.
EdgeConnect Appliances
Silver Peak's Unity EdgeConnect appliances are both physical (EC) and virtual (EC-V) form factors that create a virtual network overlay, allowing companies to use broadband Internet WAN connectivity with or in-place of Multiprotocol Label Switching connectivity.[2] See Also SD-WAN.
WAN Optimization Appliances
NX = Physical Appliance VX = Virtual Appliance
| Model | Bandwidth | Connection Limit |
|---|---|---|
| VX-500/NX-700 | 2 Mbit/s | 8,000 |
| VX/NX-1000 | 4 Mbit/s | 8,000[3] |
| VX/NX-2000 | 10 Mbit/s | 64,000 |
| VX/NX-3000 | 20 Mbit/s | 64,000 |
| VX/NX-5000 | 50 Mbit/s | 64,000 |
| VX/NX-6000 | 100 Mbit/s | 128,000 |
| VX/NX-7000 | 200 Mbit/s | 128,000 |
| VX/NX-8000 | 622 Mbit/s | 256,000 |
| VX/NX-9000 | 1 Gbit/s | 256,000 |
| NX-10K | 2.5 Gbit/s | 512,000[4][5] |
| NX-11K | 5 Gbit/s | 512,000 |
VRX Virtual Replication Acceleration Appliances
| Model | Throughput | Connections | VMware vSphere | Hyper-V | XenServer | KVM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VRX-2 | 50 GB/hour | 2,000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VRX-4 | 250 GB/hour | 2,000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VRX-6 | 750 GB/hour | 2,000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VRX-8 | 2048 GB/hour | 2,000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Partnerships
Dell
Silver Peak is a Dell partner for WAN optimization in over 30 countries, where Dell resells Silver Peak to improve the performance of Dell storage (EqualLogic and Compellent), networking (Force10), server, and virtual desktop (VDI) implementations over the wide area network.[6][7]
VMware
Silver Peak partners with VMware to offer its virtual WAN optimization products as part of the VMware vCloud Air offering.
EMC
EMC Corporation resells Silver Peak physical and virtual WAN optimization appliances, which are available through the EMC Select program. Silver Peak is also the only WAN optimization product qualified and integrated with EMC’s VPLEX Geo.[8] Silver Peak’s WAwan optimization products are E-lab qualified on Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous (SRDF/A), Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Data Mobility (SRDF/DM), SAN Copy, Celerra Replicator, Isilon SyncIQ, RecoverPoint, and Atmos.[9]
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) resells Silver Peak's WAN optimization products. Silver Peak can be deployed with HDS backup and replication products.[10]
See also
References
- ^ "Silver Peak releases software-only WAN optimization". Network World. July 13, 2011.
- ^ "Silver Peak launches gear to boost hybrid WAN performance". SearchNetworking(TechTarget). June 16, 2015.
- ^ "Silver Peak Announces Virtual WAN Optimization Platform". Network Computing. June 23, 2010.
- ^ "Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software". Network World. May 21, 2012.
- ^ "Silver Peak Launches IP Accelerator For WAN Links". InformationWeek. June 6, 2011.
- ^ "Silver Peak expands reach with Dell to global markets". Data Centre Solutions Europe. May 9, 2012.
- ^ "Silver Peak's Data Center Class WAN Optimization Solution Now Available Through Dell". Reuters. August 3, 2010.
- ^ "Silver Peak integrates with EMC VPLEX Geo for private clouds". SearchNetworking.com. May 19, 2011.
- ^ "Silver Peak attacks big data WAN latency with new EMC collaboration". SearchEnterpriseWAN. April 18, 2012.
- ^ "Silver Peak Tightens Partnership With HDS". Network Computing. May 19, 2010.