Retail, financial services, healthcare, education, and government sectors rely on the branch to serve customers and the branch is often the public face of the enterprise. 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 challenges and regulatory 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 Repeater appliances in the datacenter, Branch Repeater can optimize the staging of application data and speed dynamic data over the Wide Area Network (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
• Delivers Citrix XenApp streamed Windows applications efficiently and securely
• Consolidates Microsoft Windows Branch Services
• Integrates with Windows Server enabling the consolidation and delivery of native Windows Services to minimize support costs in remote offices
• Accelerates WAN application delivery
• Leverages Citrix WAN optimization technology to improve 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. 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 Branch Repeaters can be centrally and seamlessly managed. Consummate management flexibility is available using WMI scripting under Windows PowerShell.