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Optimized Branch Application Delivery

Citrix Branch Repeater

““Microsoft and Citrix have been delivering value to desktop customers for more than 20 years. Our joint VDI offer provides customers with the best in class virtual desktop experience through Citrix XenDesktop; integrated management across existing physical and virtual desktops with Microsoft System Center; and cost-effective virtualization with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.””
     Scott Woodgate   |   Director of Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft

The branch is often the public face of the enterprise.  Retail, financial services, healthcare, education, and government sectors rely on the branch to serve customers. Enterprises wishing to offer better customer service and achieve higher branch user productivity increase the dependence of their branches on information technology. IT administrators are challenged to meet the needs of the ever-growing population of branch IT users while pursuing infrastructure optimization initiatives that centralize applications, data, and servers to lower IT operating costs and meet data security mandates.  

Citrix Branch Repeater is a comprehensive branch solution that optimizes application delivery from Citrix Delivery Center and beyond, while simultaneously providing key native Windows®-based branch infrastructure services.  Paired with Citrix WANScaler™ appliances in the data center, Citrix Branch Repeater can optimize the staging of application data and speed dynamic data over the WAN to deliver on the promise of the fully productive branch.

Citrix Branch Repeater Features and Benefits:

  • Stages streamed applications closer to branch office users
  • Deliver Citrix XenApp streamed Windows applications for efficient and secure “rebroadcast”
  • Consolidates Microsoft Windows Branch Services
  • Integration with Windows Server® enables the consolidation and delivery of native Windows Services to minimize support costs in remote offices
  • Accelerates Wide Area Network (WAN) application delivery
  • Leverages Citrix WAN optimization technology improving application performance for branch office users while reducing bandwidth costs by up to 75 percent

Local branch services
Branch infrastructure optimization initiatives often include server, application and data consolidation. Citrix Branch Repeater can act as the “last server” in the branch by delivering required branch IT infrastructure services such as file serving, print serving, authentication, authorization, and core network services such as DHCP and DNS, all provided by the industry’s most reliable and interoperable operating system: Microsoft® Windows Server®.

Powerful Windows management mechanisms
IT infrastructure optimization requires centralized management. Citrix Branch Repeater offers Windows Management Interface (WMI) providers for WAN optimization functionality that work in parallel with WMI providers for the operating system.  The result is comprehensive, centralized management of branch service infrastructure.  Using solutions such as Microsoft System Center Operation Manager, an entire enterprise network of Citrix Branch Repeaters can be centrally and seamlessly managed. Consummate management flexibility is available using WMI scripting under Windows PowerShell™.

For more information, please read the Product Overview Brochure.