Citrix Branch Repeater

Citrix Branch Repeater

Citrix Branch Repeater™ is a branch optimization solution that accelerates application delivery to globally distributed users while dramatically reducing bandwidth costs and simplifying branch infrastructure. Branch Repeater solutions reduce IT costs and increase user productivity by simplifying branch start-up and management, improving network utilization and providing high definition experience to users. Comprising four products, the Branch Repeater family provides architectural choices to address the full range of enterprise user scenarios and deliver unparalleled acceleration and optimization benefits—especially for Citrix XenApp™ customers:

Citrix Repeater (formerly known as WANScaler) appliances are deployed in the datacenter and optimize application traffic across multiple branches (Branch Repeaters), as well as remote and mobile users (Repeater Plug-ins).

Citrix Branch Repeater appliances are deployed at branch offices and accelerate application delivery to distributed branch offices and other remote locations via HDX Broadcast and HDX IntelliCache technology for hosted virtual applications.

Citrix Branch Repeater with Windows Server appliances are complete branch office solutions that integrate and consolidate WAN optimization, application acceleration and critical Windows® services (DHCP, DNS, file, print and more) onto a single appliance. In addition to HDX Broadcast and HDX IntelliCache technology for hosted virtual applications, Branch Repeater with Windows Server includes HDX IntelliCache technology for streamed virtual applications.

Citrix Repeater Plug-in for Citrix Receiver (formerly known as WANScaler Client) resides on remote users’ desktops and laptops, and delivers application acceleration and optimization for individuals anywhere.

Branch Repeater, Branch Repeater with Windows Server and Repeater Plug-in all require Repeater appliances in the datacenter.

High definition experience for all XenApp users

Branch Repeater solutions adaptively orchestrate with XenApp servers—delivering Citrix HDX technologies to provide all users with a high definition experience:

HDX Broadcast

Branch Repeater optimizes network utilization by adaptively tuning to real-time network and traffic conditions—delivering a high definition experience to the user regardless of network latencies, bandwidth availability and network reliability.

• Adaptive TCP Flow Control optimizes the flow of network traffic across multiple connections in a branch by sensing and responding to the network and traffic conditions across the entire branch.
• Adaptive Compression reduces bandwidth consumption and maximizes application performance by adaptively applying optimal compression techniques based on traffic characteristics, infrastructure capabilities and network conditions.
• Adaptive Protocol Acceleration provides intelligent acceleration of the ICA protocol by adaptively orchestrating with XenApp, while sensing and responding to the network and traffic conditions.
• Traffic Prioritization and QoS aligns the network utilization with the business priorities by adaptively allocating network bandwidth to and prioritizing traffic from different applications, including XenApp.

HDX IntelliCache

• Branch Staging for Streamed Applications – Branch Repeater stages streamed applications locally in the branch, providing all the IT consolidation and management benefits of streaming while also delivering high performance access to the streamed applications in the branch. Whenever the streamed applications are updated or patched in the data center, Branch Repeater transparently updates them locally so branch users will always and quickly get the latest version of the streamed application.
• Branch Caching for Hosted Applications – Branch Repeater optimizes XenApp delivery across multiple user sessions by locally caching and de-duplicating transmission of commonly accessed data, files and Web pages through hosted applications.

Features & Benefits

Increase user productivity due to LAN-like application performance over the WAN

• Traffic reduction - Compression history is stored locally such that only new data is sent across the WAN link, thereby reducing traffic. This is also referred to as de-duplication.
• Traffic compression - Compress and reduce the amount of data that is sent across the network to free up bandwidth for other application traffic.
• Flow control - Mitigate the harmful effects of network latency and jitter.
• QoS - Administrators can set rules that indicate which types of application traffic have the highest priority.
• Stage XenApp streamed applications - Deliver streamed XenApp applications rapidly to branch users, by caching the applications closer to the branch users.

Dramatically reduce bandwidth and branch management costs

• Traffic reduction - Compression history is stored locally such that only new data is sent across the WAN link, thereby reducing traffic. This is also referred to as de-duplication.
• Traffic compression - Compress and reduce the amount of data that is sent across the network to free up bandwidth for other application traffic.
• Simplify branch infrastructure - Consolidate branch infrastructure down to a single appliance that provides both Microsoft Windows services and WAN optimization capabilities.
• Reduce branch management costs - Reduce the number of servers in the branch and leverage existing management tools to remotely manage Branch Repeaters.

Deliver XenApp to 4X More Branch Users on Existing Network Bandwidth

• Accelerate application start-up time by up to 23% per user.
• Accelerate file downloads 2-4x while increasing file throughput by 2X-20X.
• Increase print traffic throughput by 3-33X.
• Free up network bandwidth for additional users and applications.

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