Increase WAN throughput and reliability while improving the application experience with Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™. The traditional WAN was not designed to tackle today’s application traffic. The Citrix™ software defined WAN solution, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™, offers a more scalable, reliable, and cloud ready approach. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ identifies applications using the WAN and applies default or user defined rules to ensure that critical application receive priority and are routed across the highest—quality link. Combining the intelligence of SD—WAN technology, WAN optimization, routing and application management into one comprehensive solution, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ ensures the user experience at the branch and mobile level are just as rich and seamless as at headquarters. The distributed enterprise requires a solution that ensure users remain connected at all times. One that strengthens security and that provides end to end visibility without adding complexity. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ is that solution—built for your distributed enterprise. Businesses rely on branch offices or remote employees to serve customers, to be near partners and suppliers and to expand into new markets.

As application and desktop virtualization increase or applications move to the cloud, IT managers face the challenge of providing these applications without a performance penalty to branch and mobile users. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ can help you effectively and economically increase WAN throughput while accelerating enterprise applications and ensuring the performance and availability of mission critical applications. Through its integration with Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ Insight Center, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ monitors how well applications are being delivered to users in the branch. Maintain high performance for mission critical applications even when a network link fails. Improve the virtual desktop experience to branch—office and mobile users and accelerate traditional enterprise applications. Expand WAN capacity with low—cost broadband connections, while maintaining MPLS—level quality and reliability. Support cloud migration with integrated security to protect enterprise data. Simplify IT with integrated routing and WAN Optimization to reduce network footprint. Secure data across the WAN and to the cloud with strong encryption, application level security policies and data segmentation.

Application QoS And Optimization

Companies using Citrix™ technology for remote desktop will benefit from the integrated support for those products in the Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ platform. With integrated HDXTM technologies, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ accelerates, controls and optimizes virtual desktops delivered by Citrix XenDesktop™ and virtual applications delivered by Citrix XenApp™ for branch users, improving user experience and productivity by providing fast, secure remote access. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ identifies applications using the WAN and applies default or user defined rules to ensure that critical application receive priority and are routed across the highest—quality link. Lower quality links are used only as much as necessary, and then only for applications that can tolerate higher latency. Through features such as TCP flow control, data compression, de—duplication and protocol optimization, NetScaler SD—WAN can improve the end—user experience as well as provide a reduction in WAN bandwidth expenses. And with video usage on the rise, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ can optimize video delivery within Citrix XenDesktop™ environments as well as for popular websites and internal video content repositories.

Dynamic Routing

Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ provides an alternative to the legacy branch router, enabling a simpler branch network with lower infrastructure and support costs. With Dynamic Routing, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ can seamlessly participate in your routing topology in overlay mode for easy network insertion or operate in edge mode for a streamlined branch network with assured application delivery. By adding routing to the WAN Optimization and Virtual WAN functionality integrated into a single physical or virtual appliance. To ensure great user experiences, enterprise IT must be able to quickly and easily identify the sources of problems in application delivery. Through its integration with Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ Insight Center, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ monitors how well applications are being delivered to users in the branch. By leveraging AppFlow data reporting formats, Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ can also export data to third—party applications that provide network and application intelligence. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ appliances measure latency, jitter and loss to create a “map” of the network underlay. This map is used to direct each application to the best path through the network and ensure that the user experience is high quality.

Features And Benefits

Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ creates a reliable WAN from diverse network links, continuously measuring and monitoring each link for loss, latency, jitter and congestion. Link outages and errors are mitigated by Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™’s ability to move traffic off of poor performing links without impact to the applications. Mission critical applications are always routed across the paths with the fastest transit time, real—time application traffic can be duplicated to guarantee no loss and traffic from high bandwidth applications can be balanced across multiple links. With Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™, this results in a high bandwidth, low—cost WAN that is reliable and ensures high application quality. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™brings strong data protection to the network. Multiple overlay networks can be software defined, with separate policies and security rules applied to each overlay. This creates data segmentation, allowing extra protection for data such as payment or health information. Citrix NetScaler SD—WAN™ also provide strong encryption as data crosses public and private networks including to and from the cloud and tight integration with cloud delivered web gateways.