BrandPost: Smooth Sailing with Silver Peak SD-WAN at SolarWinds
When Michael Bishop, senior network engineer with SolarWinds, was tasked with upgrading the IT Management company’s global network, the goals included improving network management and visibility while lowering the costs of its legacy MPLS infrastructure. Bishop says the company accomplished all of that and more by deploying the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect™ software-defined wide-area networking (
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Author: Brand Post
Date: 2020-10-27
networkworld.com
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