WAN optimization accelerates
CITRIX HOPES TO RATCHET UP CLIENT IMPLEMENTATION SPACE WITH WANSCALER
B Cy Paula Musich outstripping supply,” he ronments and mobile variet- ter performance to remote
itrix systems is said. “Everyone asks how ies of Linux,” Skorupa said. users and how to maintain
looking to help to accelerate users not in But, hesaid, “it’sgoingtobe system security and data
turn the trickle of a branch office. Now we table stakes to play in this protection,” he said.
WAN optimization can accelerate the heck out market.” Interoperability with
clients for individ- of applications going into Citrix customer Rob NCsoft’s VPN technology
ual PCs and laptops into branches, but remoteusers Rice, director of network is a concern for Rice. “We
a torrent. who need it the most are and security operations at want to use this over our
To date only a handful left behind. There’s a big NCsoft, an online gaming existing VPN that we’ve
of smaller, less well-known pent-up demand for it.” publisher in Austin, Texas, already standardized on and
players in the fast-growing “Weestimateupto90 per- plans to beta test the new invested in,” he said.
application acceleration cent of corporate users will client. He said he hopes The client, which can
space have made available require 30MB to “several”
client implementations gigabytes in the PC or
of their technology to laptop, can be custom-
speed the performance ized by I T administrators
of applications accessed according to the individ-
remotely over slower- ual’s application access
speed links. requirements, Smith
At the Interop show Citrix’s WANScaler Version 4 works with a new client option. said. The self-installed cli-
in Las Vegas May 21, Citrix ent package can be centrally
will roll out its new WAN- access applications while to be able to offer it to at managed and monitored.
Scaler Client. Citrix’s prod- out of the office at some least “a couple hundred Citrix also enhanced the
uct will join application point during the course of people in our organization WANScaler appliance with
acceleration clients from their work week or month, globally.” a new software release,
Packeteer through its Tacit either at home or from the The WANScaler Cli- called WANScaler Version
Networks acquisition, Blue road. So WAN optimization ent for Windows provides 4, that allows customers
Coat Systems, tiny Stam- has to advance to work at all multilevel compression to set QOS (quality of ser-
pede Technologies and locations,” said Greg Smith, and protocol optimization vice) priorities for different
Intelligent Compression director of product mar- for HTTP, CIFS (Com- classes of traffic. Users can
Technologies, acquired keting for Citrix, in Santa mon Internet File System), ensure that more latency-
earlier this year by satellite Clara, Calif. NFS (Network File System) sensitive traffic, such as
communications company What could be holding Version 3 and FTP. It will Citrix Independent Com-
ViaSat. back supply is the diffi- also accelerate that traf- puting Architecture-based
Citrix also will get a jump culty involved in creating fic securely by working thin-client applications, can
on rivals Riverbed Technol- a Windows-based client with SSL (Secure Sockets get through even when a
ogy and Juniper Networks, that’s secure, reliable and Layer) and IP Security link is congested.
which plan to release their efficient from appliance VPNs. Although it will WANScaler 4 includes
first clients in the second code written in Linux, initially work with Citrix’s more interface options,
half of the year. said Gartner analyst Joe Access Gateway SSL VPN, including support for dual-
Despite the dearth of Skorupa. the company will validate home networks with more
offerings, market demand “It’s a significant effort interoperability with other than one WAN link. In addi-is strong, said Rob Whiteley, to get it right and working vendors’ VPNs throughout tion, the new version pro-an analyst with Forrester with multiple versions of the rest of the year, Smith vides enhanced reporting.
Research. Windows, whether it’s Win- said. The WANScaler Client
“This is one of the dows XP, Windows 2003 “We think there are two will range from $50 to $170
f ir st t ech nologi es I’ ve [or] Vista, but also Windows b usiness requir em ents per user, depending on the
seen where demand is mobile and Symbian envi- here—how to provide bet- size of the deployment. ´
