Silver Peak Systems
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Networking hardware, software |
| Founded | 2004, in California |
| Defunct | 2020 |
| Fate | Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| Successor | Aruba Networks |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Website | silver-peak |
Silver Peak Systems, Inc. was a company that developed products for wide area networks (WANs), including WAN optimization and SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN). The company was founded in 2004 by David Hughes. Silver Peak shipped its first product, the NX-series hardware appliance, in September 2005, and their first SD-WAN solution, EdgeConnect, in June 2015.
On July 13, 2020, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak for $925 Million.[1][2] This acquisition was completed on September 21, 2020, with Silver Peak becoming part of HPE subsidiary Aruba Networks.[3]
As of 2019, Silver Peak's major product lines[4] were:
- WAN optimization
- NX series network appliances
- VX series virtual appliances
- GMS Global Management System — Management software for NX and VX
- Unity
- Unity EdgeConnect — Physical and virtual appliances for SD-WAN implementation
- Unity Boost — Optional WAN optimization package
- Unity Orchestrator — Management software/service, available as a virtual appliance, cloud-hosted, or Software as a service (SaaS) subscription
