Providing mission-critical
applications to thousands of companies requires high-performance wide area
network (WAN) connectivity across distance. However, the underlying WAN
infrastructure spanning the globe is plagued with bandwidth limitations,
latency, and packet loss that can impair application use and delivery. Advent
Software is addressing this by standardizing on Silver Peak System's data
center class WAN optimization appliances.
Providing mission-critical
applications to the investment management operations of more than 4,500 client
firms around the world, Advent requires high-performance WAN connectivity
between 21 global branch offices and its data centers. Advent selected Silver Peak
for the real-time network optimization techniques that allowed Advent to
achieve more than ten-times improvement in application and throughput
performance. This ultimately reduced Advent's IT operational costs while
improving application performance between distributed branch offices and
regionalized data centers.
"With clients all over
the world, our business requires real-time access to centralized data and
applications across all of our global locations," said Mike Calabrese,
senior network manager for Advent. "Silver Peak
delivers unmatched performance when it comes to optimizing branch office and
data center connectivity, especially over lower-cost, long distance shared WAN
infrastructures where network quality can wreak havoc on the performance of key
applications."
Following an exhaustive
evaluation of WAN optimization products, Advent selected Silver Peak to replace the company's existing
WAN optimization implementation, citing Silver Peak's
industry-leading scale, ease-of-use, and unique ability to optimize all traffic
over lower-cost shared WAN infrastructures. Advent benefits from Silver Peak's
unique features that include Network Acceleration to overcome WAN latency,
Network Integrity to correct packet delivery issues and intelligently allocate
WAN resources, and Network Memory to maximize WAN bandwidth utilization.
Silver Peak partner NuSpective Solutions was
also instrumental in working with Advent to get the Silver Peak WAN
optimization appliances selected and deployed.
