Huawei and Riverbed Technology have announced an expanded partnership that will bring together the power of Huawei’s CloudEPN (cloud enterprise private network) and Riverbed SteelHead.
The partnership aims to accelerate the delivery of applications, to make it easier for enterprises to manage their networks and optimize performance in the cloud.
Huawei recently introduced its CloudEPN solution, which includes SD-WAN and cloud-based VPN components, and is designed to simplify network management for the enterprise, enabling businesses to innovate more quickly and achieve greater agility.
The solution provides on-demand interconnection between branches, branches and data centers, and branches and the cloud, delivering application-level network-wide intelligent path selection, smart acceleration, open universal computing gateways and cloud-based visualized operations and maintenance.
Riverbed SteelHead speeds the performance of cloud applications by overcoming the combined challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency on the WAN to improve enterprise productivity.
“Huawei has maintained a strong relationship with Riverbed for many years,” commented Li Xianyin, general manager of Huawei Enterprise Gateway Domain. “We are delighted to be working together to innovate in the fast-evolving networking and cloud application technology space. Together, we can offer what the customers are looking for – simplified network management and accelerated delivery of applications.”
First published in NetworksAsia