Enterprises face the ongoing challenge of delivering applications and moving data across the WAN quickly and reliably. The various demands on the enterprise WAN have created a burgeoning market for WAN optimization products aimed at significantly improving performance. Silver Peak Systems’ NX Series product line is targeted squarely at enterprises seeking to consolidate data centers, perform large amounts of data replication, and improve the performance of real-time services such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
Vendor and Product Overview
Since Silver Peak entered the WAN optimization scene in 2004, the privately held company has carved out a niche as a high-end solution targeted at large deployments. The NX Series of WAN optimization appliances focuses on improving performance for large scale WANs. In line with this strategy, Silver Peak caters to some of the largest deployments in the industry.