Silver Peak reached a major milestone in its assent to the SD-WAN summit this week with the announcement that its EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform had surpassed 1,500 customer deployments four years after it entered the market.

The achievement not only demonstrates Silver Peak's ability to successfully deploy a business-focused SD-WAN platform at scale, but also to build out its distribution channels to some of the largest service providers including NTT and Verizon, said Michael Hakkert VP of corporate marketing at Silver Peak, in an email to SDxCentral.

Hakkert also credited Silver Peak’s singular focus on WAN solutions for the company's success in the crowded market segment.

"Unlike large technology portfolio companies like Cisco and VMware that sell a broad portfolio of products and technologies, Silver Peak is focused on one thing only: enabling our customers to build a better WAN," he said, adding that this singular focus enabled the company to innovate ahead of market and deliver capabilities like centralized orchestration, virtual appliances, subscription pricing, and tunnel bonding ahead of its competition.

Silver Peak's 1,500-some deployments range in size from enterprises with just a handful of branch offices located in a relatively small geographic area to those with hundreds of branch locations around the globe.

Some of Silver Peak's largest SD-WAN customers include Builders FirstSource, Nuffield Health, Dunelm, First Bank, and North American Tile.

The company was founded in 2004, but didn't enter the SD-WAN market until 2015 with the launch of Unity EdgeConnect, which promised to cut costs by allowing to reduce or eliminate businesses reliance on costly MPLS links.

Since then, the company has become one of the leading SD-WAN vendors, according to reports from IDC and IHS Markit published earlier this year.

Hakkert says Silver Peak's ultimate objective is to displace its rivals to become the leader in the crowded SD-WAN market.