9/27/2006 — An estimated 55 percent of all employees worldwide access their applications from branch offices over a wide area network. Most of these applications—CRM, ERP, e-mail—weren’t originally designed for use over high-latency and congested WANs.  In fact, performance is often slow and erratic, negatively impacting user productivity. As a result, WAN optimization solutions are rapidly becoming a critical infrastructure requirement for global organizations.

Citrix WANScaler, formerly Orbital Data, is a leading WAN optimization product that meets the needs of organizations delivering applications over wide area networks. Leveraging a number of acceleration technologies, WANScaler improves application response time by up to 50 times for branch office employees while reducing the need for expensive bandwidth upgrades.

While users in larger branch offices are supported with WANScaler hardware-based appliances, even mobile users can benefit from accelerated application delivery by installing the WANScaler Client on desktops and laptops.

Citrix WANScaler offers the best WAN optimization technology in five areas critical to Citrix’s end-to-end application delivery strategy:

1. Best Ease-of-Use
   WANScaler is the only fully transparent “plug-and-play” appliance on the market. This means that your network monitoring tools, firewalls and applications don’t need any reconfiguration or modification when WANScaler is deployed. It just works.

2. Best Solution for Small Branches and Mobile Users
   WANScaler Client is the industry’s first software-based WAN optimization solution that can be deployed directly on a remote user’s PC.

3. Best Acceleration Over Long Distances
   WANScaler excels in some of the most problematic branch office application delivery scenarios, most notably file sharing and bulk data transfer applications that deliver large files over long distances.

4. Best Acceleration of Citrix Presentation Server
   In internal tests, WANScaler improved the performance of Presentation Server–delivered applications by as much as five times for end users. Performance benefits were especially significant for remote printing and local file save tasks.

5. Highly Extensible Architecture
   Innovative new capabilities can easily be added, including tighter integration with other elements of the Citrix end-to-end application delivery infrastructure.

Learn more about how WANScaler complements the Citrix Access Platform: click the link to download the presentation, Introducing Citrix WANScaler.

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