China Telecom is partnering with Silver Peak to deliver fully-managed SD-WAN services based on Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnectSP and Unity Boost to multinational enterprises.
The new managed SD-WAN services enable China Telecom to cost effectively address the international connectivity, performance and security requirements for multinationals based in the PRC seeking to expand out of region. It also enables China Telecom to attract new multinational clients seeking to expand into and across the PRC.
Silver Peak said that China Telecom evaluated a range of SD-WAN solutions and selected EdgeConnectSP based on the completeness of its advanced features and capabilities - all integrated into a single-device solution - with the added extensibility and seamless integration with the China Telecom NetCare monitoring and management platform.
An additional advantage of the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution is that it enables China Telecom to offer tiered managed SD-WAN services, including SLA-based performance for on premise and cloud-hosted applications.
With the Unity OrchestratorSP multi-tenant orchestration integrated into CT NetCare, China Telecom will have the ability to centrally manage and optimize network and application performance across a complete range of enterprise use cases for existing and new clients.
The Silver Peak partnership and EdgeConnectSP SD-WAN solution provide China Telecom with the expanded global network reach it requires to serve multinational clients with cost effective connectivity, leveraging commodity broadband, while meeting each clients’ unique application Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Cao Zheng, GM of Network Management Expert Business Department, China Telecom Shanghai
By partnering with the industry leader Silver Peak, we can accelerate growth and expand our customer base by offering cost effective global WAN connectivity to our existing Chinese multinational clients and attract new multinational clients that seek low-cost WAN connectivity across their sites in China.
Shayne Stubbs, VP Service Provider and Cloud, Silver Peak
We are excited to partner with one of the world’s largest service providers, China Telecom, to bring fully managed tiered SD-WAN services to multi-national enterprises that are struggling with management challenges associated with cost effective global connectivity while maintaining WAN performance and security.
