Silicom Receives $15M SD-WAN Smart Platform Orders for 2022 Delivery

-  Customer Projects Annual Revenues of Over $25M at Full Ramp-Up - 

KFAR SAVA, Israel, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of networking and data infrastructure solutions, today announced that an existing customer, one of the SD-WAN market's largest vendors, has placed purchase orders (POs) for Silicom's SD-WAN Smart Platforms in the aggregate amount of $15 million with delivery requested during 2022, and that shipments against these POs have already begun. In parallel, the client's forecasts call for equipment valued at more than $25 million to be delivered each year for the next several years.

 "The acceleration of our business with this major client reflects booming demand for SD-WAN solutions, which companies of all types, from telcos to industrials to retail, are adopting," commented Shaike Orbach, Silicom's CEO. "In addition, it is a vote of confidence in our company, reflecting the fact that we have been able to complete promised deliveries despite the worldwide shortage of components. While our ability to deliver has been somewhat compromised, our efforts to compensate, including through innovation and by building up our inventory, have so far been successful.

"As we predicted when we initiated our SD-WAN strategy five years ago, this space is now entering the mainstream, with the growing momentum of disaggregated and decoupled architectures driving more and larger design wins for Silicom. We believe, and feedback from the market confirms, that this trend will continue, positioning us for steep growth as a provider of must-have enabling building blocks for today's networks."

Mr. Orbach continued, "While our ability to deliver, given the unpredictable nature of the components crisis, may continue to be challenging, given the sheer size of our pipeline and the speed with which the SD-WAN and 5G/O-RAN markets are coming of age, we believe we remain positioned for strong multi-year growth."

About Silicom

Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center environments, Silicom's solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of servers and networking appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out cloud infrastructures.

Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.

Silicom's long-term, trusted relationships with more than 200 customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a "go-to" connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders around the globe.

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