Citrix Branch Repeater

Citrix Branch Repeater™ is a branch optimisation 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 utilisation 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 optimisation benefits—especially for Citrix XenApp™ customers:

Citrix Repeater (formerly known as WANScaler) appliances are deployed in the datacenter and optimise 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 optimisation, 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 optimisation for individuals anywhere.

NOTE: 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 optimises network utilisation 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 optimises 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 maximises 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 Prioritisation and QoS aligns the network utilisation with the business priorities by adaptively allocating network
bandwidth to and prioritising 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 optimises XenApp delivery across multiple user sessions by locally
caching and de-duplicating transmission of commonly accessed data, files and Web pages through hosted applications.