Citrix shrinks NetScaler for SMBs

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
10/13/05
Today's focus: Citrix shrinks NetScaler for SMBs

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* Citrix releases NetScaler application acceleration product for
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Today's focus: Citrix shrinks NetScaler for SMBs

By Denise Dubie

Citrix this week is set to introduce a scaled down version its
NetScaler application delivery product that is targeted at small
and midsize businesses.

The first application networking product released since Citrix
acquired NetScaler in August
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetop2400>, the Citrix NetScaler
Application Switch Standard Edition (SE) will offer SMBs
high-speed load balancing and application acceleration, the
company says. NetScaler makes application appliances that offer
load balancing, content caching and remote-access capabilities.
The company recently upgraded its traffic acceleration device to
further speed application response times and reduce WAN
bandwidth
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062905-netscaler.html?rl>.

The Application Switch SE sits in front of application servers
to provide Layer 4-7 traffic management and application
acceleration, the company says. It offloads compute-intensive
processes, such as SSL security and HTTP data compression, from
application servers enabling existing resources to support more
applications and more users. It also can monitor the health of
application resources and direct traffic to available servers to
improve business continuity. Customers have the choice to manage
the technology via a Web-based GUI or a command-line interface.

Citrix explains that NetScaler devices also take advantage of
the company's AppCompress technology, which NetScaler says users
can make some applications run 44 times faster over a WAN
connection. This is done through a mix of HTTP compression,
caching, server load balancing and terminating TCP/IP
connections on the NetScaler box instead of servers, the company
says.

The Application Switch SE can also be deployed between a Citrix
Presentation Server farm and back-end application servers to
increase server capacity and efficiency. Citrix is providing a
"best practices" reference architecture guide to customers and
the company's channel partners.

Citrix NetScaler competes with similar products from Redline
Networks and Silver Peak Systems.

The new product will be sold through Citrix channel partners and
pricing begins around $17,500 for a single unit and $30,000 for
a high-availability pair. AppCompress is a separately licensed
feature for the Application Switch Standard Edition providing
high-performance HTTP data compression.

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