Today,
Citrix announced the CloudBridge Virtual WAN Edition, which reduces the cost
of delivering applications, documents and IT services to branch offices by up
to 80 percent, while ensuring nearly 100 percent application availability. The
new CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution provides businesses with the flexibility
to employ multiple cost-effective WAN technologies, offering the ability to
scale WAN bandwidth at dramatically lower cost than traditional approaches. The
solution also ensures the best possible user experience by securely sending
mission-critical, delay-sensitive data over the highest performing path. The
new CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution extends the CloudBridge platform and its integration
with the company's HDX and application acceleration technologies, to offer the
most cost effective and highest performance solutions for securely delivering
mobile workspaces with the applications, documents and IT services people need
to work better in remote and branch offices.
To meet the demands of the
evolving workplace, enterprises are constantly sharing business-critical
information with employees, customers and partners through applications that
are bandwidth-intensive. Interactive graphics-laden applications, increased use
of HD video streaming, and VoIP consume greater network capacity year after
year. Scaling WAN bandwidth is expensive for enterprises, as they have
traditionally relied on costly MPLS services to avoid disruption to business
and maintain the usability of mission critical applications.
To address this challenge, the
new CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution allows enterprises to create a virtualized
WAN by bonding multiple network services such as MPLS, broadband, mobile and
satellite internet together to maximize WAN capacity and reliability.
CloudBridge Virtual WAN constantly assesses the performance of paths within the
virtualized WAN to instantaneously and automatically adapt to changing network
conditions. This ensures constant connectivity of mission-critical applications
without human intervention or complex routing table reconfigurations. Additional
benefits of CloudBridge Virtual WAN include providing enterprises the ability
to:
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Dramatically
lower costs for expanding capacity - allows enterprises to augment MPLS with cost-effective broadband
services in order to expand capacity for the delivery of high-priority application
traffic, video and VOIP, while increasing reliability over a standalone
MPLS-based WAN.
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Deliver
superior user experience through improved quality for all application types - offers enterprises
better mobile workspace user experience and high quality for voice or video
over IP services. The experience is enabled through CloudBridge Virtual WAN appliances
that continuously measure and monitor the latency, jitter and packet loss of
every WAN connection and dynamically make path decisions using best quality
paths.
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Convert
backup links to active- many enterprises already have back-up links in place today
but are not able to utilize them until a failure occurs. CloudBridge Virtual
WAN enables enterprises to easily and seamlessly pool active and back-up link capacity,
therefore eliminating wasted bandwidth.
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Ensure
availability of high-priority applications - When one or more WAN services are
impaired, CloudBridge Virtual WAN
provides
a failover system to ensure adequate bandwidth on the best-performing remaining
paths is used to deliver business-critical applications.
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Easily
manage and monitor WAN performance - presents enterprises
with a simple, end-to-end management system that provides visibility into the
WAN and all of the application delivery from the cloud, data Center or branch, through
CloudBridge Virtual WAN Center.
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Securely
connect cloud to branch - enables enterprises to combine datacenter and cloud
application delivery through the use of advanced encryption between CloudBridge
devices on customer premises or in the cloud when using the Internet.
Chalan Aras, Vice President and General
Manager, CloudBridge Product Group
"Businesses
need a revolutionary solution to deliver "always on" availability and a high
definition experience as their customers, employees and partners increasingly
rely on time-sensitive information processing for their business. CloudBridge Virtual
WAN helps enterprises eliminate the reliance on costly MPLS and focus on
delivering business-critical data to mobile workspaces."
Paul Garcia, Senior Director of
IT Infrastructure, HMS Host
"Today
we use Citrix CloudBridge for data reduction and protocol acceleration to our
restaurant and travel service locations as it speeds up transactions for our
customers while also reducing expense for HMS Host. With this new CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution,
we will be able to further reduce our WAN expenses, while also ensuring
application availability by allowing for transparent failover between the
network connections. We are excited that Citrix has announced this new solution
for the CloudBridge platform are looking forward to working with it."
Availability
The CloudBridge Virtual WAN
will be generally available as a new software edition on select CloudBridge
appliances in Q2 2015. Additionally, virtual appliances and versions for third
party cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, will be available in Q3
2015.