SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 29, 2016 – Silver Peak, the leader in building software-defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs), today announced Service King Collision Repair Centers headquartered in Richardson, Texas, one of the largest operators of high-quality collision repair services in the U.S., is the latest enterprise to purchase and deploy the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution. Leveraging the Silver Peak solution, Service King will deploy broadband at each of its more than 300 collision repair locations, saving significantly on annual managed router services costs.
Through its ongoing strategic national growth initiative, Service King aims to implement a secure, scalable and ultimately cost-effective network design across its footprint. In an effort to do so, the team evaluated SD-WAN solutions to enhance the network.
With Silver Peak’s EdgeConnect, Service King is able to increase network performance by rapidly deploying broadband at both existing and new locations, immediately migrating all locations to the company’s WAN. By leveraging Silver Peak, Service King aims to eventually convert to broadband-only WAN.
“Silver Peak’s EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution brings an unparalleled level of flexibility to our network and allows Service King to connect users to our corporate network in record time,” said Derek Kramer, Chief Information Officer of Service King. “Not only are we going to increase network performance, we are aiming to significantly reduce our cost-to-serve by moving to broadband.”
As Service King evaluated ways to build a better WAN, it quickly determined SD-WAN was the right solution as the industry-leading organization preferred to bring broadband into the mix. During its evaluation, the company determined that the Silver Peak solution not only delivered phenomenal performance, its high-end encryption and WAN hardening security features also met its underlying regulatory requirements.
Service King was introduced to Silver Peak through its relationship with Dell as a complement to its existing Dell networking switches being deployed at the branch. In addition to all of the SD-WAN features Silver Peak brings to Service King, an added value is that EdgeConnect also serves as the edge router. For the hybrid sites with existing branch routers, EdgeConnect is the router for Internet access.
“The combination of the end-to-end Dell IT infrastructure and Silver Peak’s SD-WAN solution delivers the kind of improved network and application performance Service King requires in the data center and branches,” stated Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure. “Silver Peak’s focus on disruptive SD-WAN solutions pairs nicely with Dell Networking’s strategy and results in satisfied customers.”
“Service King is a great example of a forward-thinking company that recognized they could build a better WAN by leveraging broadband and our SD-WAN solution,” added Silver Peak Founder and CEO, David Hughes. “As SD-WAN adoption continues to accelerate, customers are recognizing that performance truly matters when using broadband. Solution providers not only need to address using multiple forms of connectivity, those links must be reliable and deliver superior performance.”
Unlike other SD-WAN solutions that focus simply on allowing enterprises to leverage Internet connectivity, Silver Peak delivers a level of broadband quality of service that increases the reliability and security customers expect from a private line. With EdgeConnect as the foundation for an SD-WAN, enterprises can improve the resiliency of their WAN, dynamically balance traffic across multiple paths and increase application performance over any source of connectivity.
About Service King Collision Repair Centers
Service King is one of the largest multi-location operators of comprehensive high-quality automotive collision repair facilities in the U.S., dedicated to offering customers an overall superior experience. Now in its 40th year of operation, Service King is a leader in the collision repair industry currently servicing customers at 300 locations in 23 states. In 2015, Service King was named the No. 1 Best Place to Work by both the Dallas and San Antonio Business Journals. For more information about Service King, visit ServiceKing.com. Follow Service King’s news on Facebook and Twitter.
About Silver Peak
Silver Peak is the leader in building software-defined WANs (SD-WANs). Silver Peak enables enterprises and service providers to flexibly and securely connect users to applications via the most cost-effective and highest performing WAN connectivity available. With Silver Peak’s solutions, customers can augment or replace MPLS networks with secure broadband connectivity, leveraging existing WAN investments while dramatically reducing WAN costs and complexity. Customers benefit from unprecedented levels of visibility, control and security over all traffic traversing the WAN, while improving application and network performance. With Silver Peak, sites can be rapidly and non-disruptively expanded, moved or changed as business demands evolve. Learn more at www.silver-peak.com.