Silicom Ltd. announced that Telefónica Tech (Telefónica’s holding for digital businesses) has selected Silicom’s SD-Branch Smart Platform as one of its global SD-WAN solutions for the SME segment. Telefónica Tech has defined an in-house SD-Branch solution from the bottom up to enable small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to leverage the decoupled network concept, an approach that will help them maximize the connectivity, agility and flexibility of their cloud-based applications while reducing provisioning, upgrade and service delivery costs. Telefónica Tech expects deployments of this SD-Branch service to begin ramping up in 2022. Telefónica Tech valued Silicom’s SD-Branch Smart Platform differentiated feature set, including its support for 5G modules and 4X2.5G LAN ports in a slick and modern design, together with its good Performance-to-Price ratio. Additional important considerations were the flawless integration of Silicom’s hardware with Telefónica Tech’s SD-Branch software platform, and the seamless collaboration between Silicom, Telefónica Tech and other vendors involved in the project.