Citrix NetScaler Standard

Citrix NetScaler Standard Edition provides small and medium enterprises comprehensive layer 4-7 traffic management, enabling increased web application performance and availability and reduced application delivery costs. Citrix NetScaler Standard Edition is a highly integrated application delivery system that combines L4 load balancing, L7 content switching, and SSL encryption offload in an integrated, easy-to-use solution.

NetScaler Standard Edition Key Benefits

Enhanced Application Availability

• Header-and payload-based L4-7 traffic management with comprehensive server health checks directs user requests to the optimal application server
• Protects applications from L4 denial-ofservice (DoS) attacks
• Delivers robust high availability for any application infrastructure
• Highly integrated appliance reduces number of data path devices
• Provides global traffic management for multi-site enterprises via optional Global Server Load Balancing

Improved Datacenter Efficiency

• TCP optimizations offload costly networking connection management from servers
• Efficient traffic management optimizes server infrastructure
• Integrates hardware-based SSL acceleration for faster delivery of secure web traffic (HTTPS)
• Optional data compression reduces usage of network bandwidth

Accelerated Application Performance

• TCP optimizations improve performance across high-latency and congested networks
• Optional data compression improves application response times for HTTP applications