Silver Peak
Silver Peak is a networking technology company that provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) (SD‑WAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) edge infrastructure solutions for enterprise environments.
- SD‑WAN (software-defined networking) platform for enterprise and cloud-connected WANs.
- WAN edge infrastructure for branch, data center, and cloud connectivity.
- Application-aware traffic steering, optimization, and Quality of Service (QoS) across hybrid WANs.
- Security integration with existing enterprise security stacks and service insertion.
- Centralized orchestration and monitoring for distributed WAN deployments.
More About Silver Peak
Silver Peak focuses on SD‑WAN (networking) and WAN edge infrastructure (networking) that enterprises use to connect branch locations, data centers, and public cloud environments over a mix of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, and other IP links.
The company’s SD‑WAN platform (networking) is positioned as a virtual overlay that abstracts underlying transport services and applies centralized policies for routing, QoS, and path selection based on application requirements rather than only IP addressing or traditional routing metrics.
In enterprise use, Silver Peak appliances and virtual instances (networking) are typically deployed at branch sites, regional hubs, data centers, and cloud environments, creating an integrated fabric managed from a central orchestration console (network management).
The solution uses capabilities such as dynamic path control, forward error correction, traffic shaping, and packet conditioning to maintain application performance across diverse WAN circuits, with policies that can classify traffic by application, user, or destination.
Silver Peak architectures commonly align with concepts from Software Defined Networking (SDN), virtual network functions, and overlay networking, while interoperating with underlay IP and MPLS services using standard routing protocols such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) where appropriate.
The platform’s policy model allows IT teams to define intent for application performance and security handling, which the orchestration layer translates into configuration across physical and virtual WAN edge devices.
Security capabilities are often implemented through integration with third-party security services and next-generation firewalls, as well as by steering traffic to cloud-based security services, while enforcing segmentation and traffic separation at the WAN edge.
From a marketplace and directory perspective, Silver Peak fits into categories such as SD‑WAN (networking), WAN edge infrastructure (networking), branch connectivity (networking), and cloud on-ramp solutions (networking), and it is used by enterprises seeking centralized control and visibility over distributed WAN environments.