Software Defined Networking Solutions And Services
Software Defined Networking Solutions And Services—Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway SDN

Ensure secure app delivery to any device over any network with Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™. Secure remote access from any device type to business applications deployed in the data center or cloud. Next—gen remote access. Ensure secure app delivery to any device over any network with Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ solves these challenges by providing the most secure, cost—effective solution for remote access. Optimized for Citrix XenApp™, Citrix XenDesktop™, and Citrix XenMobile™ applications, it can also greatly enhance the performance and stability of any application. By consolidating multiple remote access solutions into a single, secure access solution, Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ streamlines IT, saves money, and simplifies access through one URL. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides industry trusted remote access to XenApp and XenDesktop, as well as all of your enterprise web, SaaS, and Citrix apps. The secure network remote access gateway simplifies and consolidates your infrastructure to deliver a seamless user experience while centralizing management.

Using Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ to deliver XenApp™ and XenDesktop™, you can eliminate the need for a separate remote access SSL VPN for enterprise and cloud apps, reducing your overall costs and providing a seamless user experience. Too many best of breed solutions have complicated the data center infrastructure, making it hard as well as expensive to manage. IT trends change fast and as a result organizations look for point products to meet new requirements. Over time addition of point products has caused redundancy in data center infrastructure and as a result it has become very costly and very hard to manage. With the trends changing again, IT needs to pause and first consolidate the existing infrastructure. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides users with secure remote access to business applications deployed in the data center or a cloud across a range of devices including laptops, desktops, thin clients, tablets and smart phones. It provides a consolidated infrastructure, simplifies IT and reduces TCO of the data center infrastructure. Today’s users expect to access their apps and data from anywhere and on any device.

Citrix nFactor Authentication–Federation And Single Sign–On

Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides federated identity based on SAML 2.0 standards for single sign—on between applications. Users can now switch between XA/XD and enterprise/web/cloud applications without having to login again. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides nFactor authentication mechanisms and allows granular control over who is accessing, what is being accessed, how and when is it being accessed. It supports all the authentication mechanisms like RADIOUS, TACACS, NTLM, Diameter, SAML 2.0, etc. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ allows administrators to configure only one public IP to seamless Single Sign—On between applications. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides a highly customizable portal that allows customers to brand them per their organizational standards. Customers can select logos, background colors, EULA agreements etc. as a part of this customization. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides users with secure remote access to business applications deployed in the data center or a cloud across a range of devices including laptops, desktops, thin clients, tablets and smart phones.

Citrix HDX And Citrix Gateway Insight

Citrix HDX Insight™ makes it easier for IT organizations to overcome the expense and obstacles to achieving better application visibility. These obstacles and expense can include the need to deploy intrusive network taps, install software agents on every server or instrument each application for specialized monitoring. It provides both real—time and historical monitoring for IT administrators and IT support teams. Citrix Gateway Insight™ provides visibility and captures end—to—end user experience for all applications accessed through Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™. It provides information to application support teams to troubleshoot issues regarding authentication failures, EPA check failures, single sign—on failures etc. Citrix NetScaler Insight Center ™ brings you complete end—to—end visibility into all TCP, HTTP, and HDX—based access sessions. Integrated HDX Insight provides unparalleled monitoring and auditing of HDX traffic associated with Citrix XenDesktop™ and XenApp™ environments. Additional features provide monitoring and auditing of errors related to user authentication failures, end point check failures, or any single sign—on failures for any application traffic passing through Citrix NetScaler™.

Single Sign–On To Applications

Federation and single sign—on. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides federated identity and supports SAML 2.0, OAuth, and OpenID to achieve single sign-on across all applications whether they are web, VDI, enterprise, or SaaS applications. User directory on—premises. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides SSO to SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365™ and Salesforce™, and keeps the user directory on—premises. It can be implemented as an IdP or proxy for ADFS and provides SSO to SaaS applications. Multi—factor (nFactor) authentication. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides nFactor authentication mechanisms and allows granular control over who is accessing the network; what is being accessed; and how and when it is accessed. It supports all the authentication mechanisms such as RADIUS, TACACS, NTLM, Diameter, SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID 2.0. Contextual access control policies. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ allows granular access control to business applications based on the state of the end—user device, user, user location, and other data. An IT administrator can create, manage, and enforce these policies to access data securely in an application environment.

Features And Benefits

Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides industry trusted remote access to Citrix XenApp™ and Citrix XenDesktop™, as well as all of your enterprise web, SaaS, and Citrix™ apps. The secure network remote access gateway simplifies and consolidates your infrastructure to deliver a seamless user experience while centralizing management. Using NetScaler Unified Gateway™ to deliver Citrix XenApp™ and Citrix XenDesktop™, you can eliminate the need for a separate remote access SSL VPN for enterprise and cloud apps, reducing your overall costs and providing a seamless user experience. Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway™ provides one URL and consolidates remote access infrastructure. It provides remote access from any device to any application. Virtual applications like Citrix XenApp™ and Citrix XenDesktop™, Enterprise web and client—server applications, or cloud and SaaS applications. For IT, this helps improve efficiency and reduce cost of ownership. For end users, it provides one URL for accessing any application from any location and improves the user experience. Users can now access any application, using any device, accessing one URL.