CItrix Branch Repeater 6 Brings Service-Centric WAN Optimization to the Cloud Era
May 10 2011 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems, Inc. today announced Branch Repeater™ 6, a
market-leading wide-area network (WAN) optimization solution that
offers unique SmartAcceleration technology to transform WAN
optimization from a network-centric infrastructure to a
service-centric solution. As a result, branch office users can
enjoy a brilliantly fast experience for the increasing range of
services delivered from both public and private clouds, including
virtual desktops and apps, web and Windows apps, multi-media,
voice, video and more. At the same time, IT can now prioritize
these optimizations by user or service, reducing costs and giving
them far more control.
The explosive new trends in consumerization, mobility, desktop
virtualization and cloud computing are driving the transformation
of network-centric WAN optimization technologies into
service-centric solutions. As companies witness paradigm shifts in
virtual computing, cloud computing, mobility and video, the way
information is created and where it is consumed are fundamentally
changing. Network traffic is exploding with a mix of traffic,
originating from different sources – datacenters, cloud and branch
offices – and delivered to a variety of devices used by mobile,
remote and branch office workers. These trends require a new and
holistic approach to optimizing and accelerating the delivery of
all services regardless of where they are delivered from and where
the users are located, going beyond network-centric optimizations
to a service-centric optimization era.
Facts and Highlights
The new SmartAcceleration technology in Branch Repeater 6
enables several key benefits:
- Prioritize by User or Service:
SmartAcceleration technology provides intelligent and adaptive
mechanisms to guarantee quality of service (QoS) and experience
(QoE) by enabling IT with a set of tools for holistic service
delivery management: these tools assess network traffic patterns
and usage, classify apps and services traffic, control bandwidth
consumption and protect delay-sensitive apps using granular
policies, monitor network congestion and delays affecting user
experience, and remediate those problems quickly to minimize
support calls. SmartAcceleration enables IT with the flexibility to
classify and prioritize optimizations by application location,
branch location, user location, user groups, application type,
protocol, traffic direction, and more.
- Deep Visibility: Smart
Acceleration offers unique, deep visibility and control across a
broad range of services – more than 500 apps and protocols. This
control includes, but is not limited to, native and virtual apps
and desktops, audio, video, Microsoft apps, web apps and more.
- User-centric Virtual Desktop
Prioritization: SmartAcceleration is the first and only
technology able to prioritize virtual desktops and apps by user
groups, allowing IT to accelerate the delivery differently for
different user groups, determined by their business policies.
- Faster Encrypted Email and File
Transfers: Layer 7 optimizations are supported including
Microsoft email (Encrypted MAPI & Exchange 2010) and Microsoft
file servers (SMBv2, Signed SMB v1/v2).
Quotes
Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management
Associates (EMA)
“Cloud, virtualization and smarter mobile devices are pushing
the network outside the traditional branch office and extending it
beyond traditional LAN/WAN boundaries. The challenge for IT
departments is to find ways to deliver applications to end users
wherever they are and however they are accessing their data. The
problem is that corporate network bandwidth is not infinite. The
more fine-tuned control that IT departments can obtain over their
application delivery, especially on the WAN links, the better they
will be able to ensure the end users they support will get
efficient and effective access to the applications and services
they need most. Citrix is taking their WAN optimization solution,
Branch Repeater, and continuing to build it into the fabric of an
overall application delivery solution, making it easier for IT
departments to meet the growing demands of the new virtual work
environment.”
Troy Trenchard, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Security and Acceleration Product Group, Citrix Systems,
Inc.
“Consumerization, mobility and cloud computing continue to drive
the industry to evolve network-centric optimization technologies
from the PC era to a service-centric optimization architecture of
the Cloud era. Branch Repeater 6, with new SmartAcceleration
technologies, facilitates IT’s journey from the PC era to the Cloud
era, enabling IT teams to bring hi-def desktops, apps and
multi-media to millions of branch office users.”
Additional Information
- Expert blog: Branch Repeater 6:
Changing the WAN Optimization game... again! by Sai Allavarpu,
Senior Director of Product Marketing, Security and Acceleration
Product Group, Citrix
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each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in 100
countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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