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Silver Peak and NSC Announce Global Partnership; Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN Edge Platform to Underpin New Managed SD-WAN Services

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Silver
Peak®
, the global SD-WAN
leader, delivering the transformational promise of the cloud with a
self-driving wide area network™, today announced a new partnership with NSC,
expanding its global IT services portfolio with new managed SD-WAN
services powered by the business-driven Unity
EdgeConnect™
SD-WAN edge platform. NSC now serves as a single source
provider, offering professional SD-WAN deployment services, white-label
managed SD-WAN services to tier one and multi-national service providers
and turnkey managed SD-WAN services to new and existing enterprise
clients. NSC is uniquely positioned to deliver the highest quality of
service to a rapidly expanding base of global clients.

The new Silver Peak-based managed SD-WAN services are available
immediately to NSC enterprise and service provider clients and partners
in 180 countries around the world. Enterprise clients benefit from
unrivaled service agility with turnkey managed SD-WAN services powered
by the business-driven EdgeConnect platform deployed as a single VNF
running on multi-purpose universal CPE devices deployed at sites across
their networks. Service providers can now offer metered white label
managed SD-WAN services to enterprise clients with the same deployment
model agility and flexibility.

“By partnering with Silver Peak, we can expand our global SD-WAN
deployment services practice, offer a white-label managed SD-WAN service
to our service provider clients and offer new and existing enterprise
clients turnkey managed SD-WAN services,” said Sascha Groeger, chief
commercial officer for NSC. “For service provider clients, this means
they can fast-track managed SD-WAN service offerings to accelerate new
revenue opportunities. And for enterprise clients, this means they can
quickly transition to SD-WAN and accelerate cloud and digital
transformation initiatives to achieve greater business agility and
productivity. We’re excited to partner with Silver Peak to bring the
power of EdgeConnect to our clients around the world.”

NSC All-inclusive Managed SD-WAN Services Encompass:

  • Pre-sales, advisory and consulting
  • Procurement, hardware and software, purchase or lease
  • Staging and provisioning, device and circuit testing and management
  • Deployment, install, turn-up, test and lifecycle management
  • 24x7x365 monitoring and break-fix, capacity analysis and reporting
  • Network and application performance monitoring, management and
    reporting
  • Expedited moves, adds, changes and deletes (MACD)

Business-driven SD-WAN Edge Platform

The Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform simplifies and consolidates
the network edge, offering:

  • Unified SD-WAN, security, routing and WAN optimization
  • Centralized orchestration and management
  • Granular application visibility and control
  • Freedom to employ any combination of WAN transport
  • Flexible deployment models, hardware, software and cloud

“Our partnership with NSC brings together a powerful combination of
flexible, tailored IT services with the industry’s only business-driven
SD-WAN edge platform, effectively raising the bar on service agility and
flexibility for our mutual enterprise and service provider customers
around the world,” said Michael O’Brien, vice president of partner sales
for Silver Peak. “NSC can now accelerate post sale SD-WAN deployments
with its partners, deliver turnkey white-label managed SD-WAN services
to its service provider clients and offer new and existing enterprise
clients turnkey managed SD-WAN services. Together with NSC, we are
radically simplifying the way wide area networks are built and managed.”

About NSC

NSC is a leading global professional services and managed resourcing
provider of information and communication technology, partnering with
world-class organisations to deliver unrivalled agility and service
excellence. NSC operates in 180+ countries with a network of 4,500+
Partner Resources. Combining more than 20 years of managed network
experience with technology from leading SD-WAN providers, NSC is helping
lead its customers in the Software-Defined Digital Revolution. Learn
more at nsc.com.

About Silver Peak

Silver Peak, the global SD-WAN
leader, delivers the transformational promise of the cloud with a
business-first networking model. The Unity
EdgeConnect™
self-driving wide area network platform liberates
enterprises from conventional WAN approaches to transform the network
from a constraint to a business accelerant. Thousands of globally
distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak WAN solutions across
100 countries. Learn more at silver-peak.com.

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