On the way to business-oriented SD-WAN - Ascend enters into partnership with Silver Peak

Nuremberg, February 2020

Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips and is also revolutionizing the way corporate networks work. The Nuremberg-based network specialist Ascend is now entering into a partnership with the market-leading SD-WAN manufacturer Silver Peak® to expand its portfolio in line with the times and intelligently cover the entire SD-WAN field.

Silver Peak is the world's leading provider of business-oriented SD-WAN solutions for cloud-first organizations. The Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect™ automated wide area network platform offers enterprises a modern alternative to traditional router-centric WAN approaches, enabling them to maximize the value of their investments in cloud applications and services.

Advantages of a business-oriented SD-WAN

Conventional router-centric WANs significantly limit the possibilities that the Internet offers companies. Moving to a business-oriented network model supports business operations and its applications and enables companies to achieve a multiplier effect on their investments in cloud applications and services.

The Unity EdgeConnect™ SD-WAN edge platform continuously adapts to changing network conditions to provide users with the best possible user experience. EdgeConnect is centrally managed using Unity Orchestrator™, giving IT organizations complete control of the WAN.

EdgeConnect is also the industry's only SD-WAN edge platform that combines SD-WAN, firewall, segmentation, routing, WAN optimization, and application visibility and control in a single centrally managed system.

EdgeConnect is deployed as a physical, virtual or cloud-based appliance and offers cloud-first organizations the flexibility to create a Any combination of transport - MPLS, broadband, 4G LTE - and link multiple connections into virtual overlays so that each application has the resources it needs for deployment and provides users with the highest quality connection.