CASE STUDY:

Global distributor assures network uptime with SD-WAN

Westcon-Comstor gains up to tenfold increase in available bandwidth, and boosts application performance while reducing MPLS dependence with Silver Peak’s Unity EdgeConnect.

Westcon-Comstor, a value-added distributor of category-leading IT solutions, offers world-class security, collaboration, infrastructure, and unified communications solutions with a global network of specialty partners.

The company has a presence in 80 countries around the world, including a strong presence in Asia Pacific, providing a local point of contact and efficient logistical services with the resources of a global enterprise.

Westcon-Comstor needed to build greater assurance of WAN availability and improve performance for critical applications like SAP ERP, VoIP, and Office 365 while reducing dependence on costly MPLS.

Here’s how they did it with an SD-WAN platform from Silver Peak.