Summary
Peraton partners with Graphiant to help state, federal, and military agencies build private, encrypted networks for highly sensitive mission environments. By using Graphiant, Peraton enables customers to own and control their full network infrastructure while simplifying deployment,operations, and scale. The solution reduces total cost by up to 90% compared to similar legacy approaches by replacing specialized hardware, costly refresh cycles, and per-feature licensing with a single subscription and commercial off-the-shelf hardware. At the same time, Graphiant delivers secure private connectivity, rapid site deployment in minutes, portal-based bandwidth scaling, deployable control plane options for government cloud or on-premises environments, and data assurance capabilities that allow agencies to control the geographic boundaries where application traffic is permitted to flow.
Customer Overview
Peraton is a national security technology and services provider supporting mission-critical programs across state, federal, defense,intelligence, homeland security, civilian government, and military environments. Their customers operate in highly sensitive environments where secure connectivity, infrastructure control, data sovereignty, operational resilience, and rapid mission response are essential.
These agencies need to connect offices, secure facilities,cloud environments, international embassies, battlefield locations, temporary command posts, and other distributed mission sites. At the same time, they must protect sensitive data, maintain control over infrastructure, enforce strict geographic traffic policies, and operate within constrained public-sector budgets. Peraton uses Graphiant to deliver a private, encrypted networking solution that meets these requirements while reducing the complexity and cost traditionally associated with secure private networks.
Key Values Delivered
- Private Encrypted Networking: Peraton uses Graphiant to provide secure private connectivity for state, federal, and military agencies handling highly sensitive data, helping customers build private networks where they own and control the infrastructure.
- Lower Total Cost: Graphiant reduces costs by up to 90% compared to similar legacy approaches by eliminating specialized hardware, costly refresh cycles, and complex per-feature licensing.
- Simplified Commercial Model: Graphiant provides all features in a single offering with one subscription, allowing agencies to scale without separate licenses, feature add-ons, or license changes as requirements evolve.
- Rapid Deployment and Scaling: New locations can be brought online in minutes instead of weeks or months, and bandwidth can be increased in minutes through the portal without replacing hardware or changing licenses.
- Flexible Mission Support: The same Graphiant architecture can support offices, international embassies, military installations, battlefield environments, cloud connectivity, and temporary mission locations using commercial off-the-shelf hardware.
- Data Assurance and Geographic Control : Graphiant enables agencies to define geographic boundaries for traffic, such as preventing certain applications from leaving the continental United States or requiring global traffic to move only through infrastructure in allied countries.
Mission-Owned Private Networking for Sensitive Agencies
Peraton’s customers were managing secure connectivity across highly distributed environments while trying to maintain control over infrastructure, encryption, policy enforcement, and data movement. Legacy private networking approaches were often relying on carrier-provided private networks, specialized routing and encryption appliances, firewall overlays, and complex service-provider dependencies. These architectures were helping agencies connect sensitive environments, but they were also creating long deployment timelines, high recurring costs, operational complexity, and limited flexibility as mission requirements changed.
Graphiant’s private networking solution delivers a model that allows agencies to own and operate their infrastructure while simplifying how secure connectivity is deployed and managed. By separating the policy and control model from the underlying transport, Graphiant allows Peraton to help customers use available connectivity while applying a private encrypted network fabric across offices, embassies, cloud environments, tactical locations, and other mission sites. Agencies can deploy the control plane in government cloud or on premises, giving them direct control over orchestration, policy management, and administrative access.
Now when an agency needs to connect a new mission location, they deploy private encrypted connectivity and bring the site online in minutes.This replaces a legacy workflow that used to require specialized appliance procurement, license assignment, and manual security integration. The result is a mission-owned network architecture that supports sensitive environments with greater control, faster deployment, and up to 90% lower cost than comparable legacy solutions.
Accelerating Deployment While Reducing Cost and Operational Complexity
Agencies were often struggling to align network delivery with mission tempo while also controlling the rising cost and complexity of secure private networking. Standing up a temporary command post, expanding an office, supporting an embassy, or activating a battlefield location was requiring long lead times, manual configuration, specialized hardware, carrier coordination, procurement cycles, and security integration. At the same time,legacy approaches were depending on proprietary appliances, expensive refresh cycles, carrier-managed private transport, advanced feature licenses, and professional services for deployment and operations. As agencies were expanding across more locations and use cases, these models were increasing total cost ofownership and slowing the ability to respond to new mission requirements.
Using Graphiant, Peraton is helping agencies move to a faster, simpler, and more cost-effective operating model. New locations can be deployed in minutes instead of weeks or months, and bandwidth can be increased through the portal without changing licenses or replacing hardware. Graphiant’s use of commercial off-the-shelf hardware reduces dependence on proprietary appliances and costly refresh cycles, while its single-subscription model eliminates per-feature pricing and gives customers access to all capabilities without separate licenses for routing, encryption, segmentation, policy,analytics, or data assurance. This simplifies procurement, reduces license management, and gives agencies a more predictable way to scale secure private networking across mission environments.
In a temporary mission deployment where an agency urgently needs to support a field team with secure access to mission applications, video feeds, and operational data. Previously, the project team would require complex deployments with hardware setup, license validation and complex policies before the location could become operational. With Graphiant’s solution the agency can activate secure connectivity using simple software provisioning. If the site begins supporting more video or data-intensive applications, operators can increase bandwidth in minutes through the portal without purchasing additional feature entitlements or coordinating hardware upgrades. This helps reduce total cost by up to 90% compared to similar solutions while preserving secure private connectivity, infrastructure ownership, and operational control.
Enforcing Data Assurance and Geographic Control
Agencies handling highly sensitive data were relying on encryption, private circuits, static routing, and manual controls to protect traffic. While these tools were securing data in transit, they were not always giving agencies enough control over where application traffic was flowing,which infrastructure it was traversing, or whether sensitive data was staying within approved geographic boundaries. For national security customers, this was creating a gap between encrypted connectivity and true data assurance.
Graphiant’s data assurance capabilities give Peraton a way to help agencies define and enforce geographic traffic policies at the application level. Agencies can prevent certain applications from leaving thecontinental United States while allowing other applications to operate globally only through infrastructure located in approved allied countries. This gives customers more granular control than traditional encrypted tunnels or static routing policies, because the network can enforce where different application traffic is allowed to flow.
For sensitive application onboarding, Peraton can now help agencies translate sovereignty and mission requirements directly into network policy. Security teams can define which applications must remain within the continental US, which applications are permitted to use global paths, and which countries or regions are approved for traffic traversal. Network teams can the napply those policies through Graphiant while maintaining flexibility across distributed sites. This allows agencies to support global operations,embassies, cloud environments, and tactical deployments while maintaining stronger assurance over sensitive data movement.
The Graphiant Advantage
Graphiant gives Peraton a modern foundation for secure private networking across national security environments.
With Graphiant, agencies can build and own private encrypted networks, deploy on COTS hardware, scale locations and bandwidth in minutes,use all features through one subscription, deploy the control plane in gov cloud or on premises, and enforce geographic traffic boundaries for sensitive applications.
For Peraton’s customers, the result is secure connectivity that is faster to deploy, easier to operate, more flexible to scale, and much more cost-effective than comparable legacy approaches.
