Choosing the right platform and edition options

Hardware-based app delivery appliances

Performance: 500 Mbps–200 Gbps

Best for

• Managing web applications with multiple gigabits of traffic
• Load balancing for small enterprises
• Ultra high performance web application security
• Flex tenancy

Hardware-based appliances with virtualization to consolidate up to 115 independently-managed Citrix ADC instances

Performance: Up to 200 Gbps

Best for

• Consolidating multiple physical load balancers
  
• Providing flexible multi-tenancy
  
• Service providers requiring fully isolated tenants
  
• Simplifying application rollouts from staging and dev environments
  

Software-based virtual appliances that run on widely deployed hypervisors

Performance: 10 Mbps–100 Gbps

Best for

• Architecting hybrid cloud infrastructures
• Cloud native application load balancing for public cloud environments
  
• Replace hardware based load balancers
  
• Utilizing Citrix ADC in any use case, anywhere (from development to testing to production environments). 
• Architecting scalable multi-tenant infrastructures
• Attractive application delivery options for telco, enterprises and small businesses

Docker containerized load balancer that can be supported on-premise and in multi-cloud environments

Best for

• Supporting containerized applications
  
• Migrating to a microservices architecture
  
• Providing developers and DevOps teams with load balancing early in the app development cycle

Citrix Networking CPX Express

Citrix Networking CPX Express is the free developer version that supports up to 20 Mbps and 250 SSL connections. CPX Express supports most of the CPX feature set, except TCP optimization and L7 DDoS.

Software ADC form factor for deployment on a bare metal server. Runs as a process on Linux with no hypervisor or container overhead.

Performance: Up to 40 Gbps

BEST FOR

• High throughput environments with critical applications
• Latency sensitive workloads
• Private data centers or bare metal cloud deployment
• Running ADC functionality on you choice of server
• Managing ADC software with common Linux software deployment tools

Full suite of Citrix ADC capabilities in a hybrid cloud environment for development, testing, and production delivery.