This document discusses how Citrix NetScaler delivers solutions to address common business challenges related to application delivery, including technical debt, hybrid cloud management, reliability, performance, and security issues. It provides an overview of NetScaler's capabilities such as cloud native elasticity, high performance, hybrid SSL support, AWS AutoScale integration, multi-NIC/IP support in Azure, server monitoring and load management, SSL offloading, application acceleration, and more. Case studies are presented showing how NetScaler has helped customers like Washington State DOT and Aramex International improve application availability, performance, and security.

1. Application Delivery
Control Customer
Overview
Ensuring application performance and security
David Gallo
AUGUST 27, 2018

2. How Citrix NetScaler delivers solutions
Solving Business
Challenges

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Business challenges facing application delivery
Technical debt and
application lifecycle
management across
multi-cloud
Manage
Supporting cloud
native apps and
hybrid cloud
topologies
Hybrid
Server failures or
public cloud outages
can impact app
availability
Reliability
Decreased productivity
and loss of revenue due
to slow performing
applications
Performance
Increasing need
for encryption
and new ciphers
Security

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• Flexibility to deploy in hardware or software
• Share capacity in a hybrid/multi cloud deployment
• Script based configuration templates
• Responsive provisioning with AWS AutoScale service
• High performance virtual ADCs (up to 3 Gbps) in AWS
and Azure
• Lightweight containerized ADCs for PaaS
deployments
Cloud native elasticity
High performance, automated and scalable in the cloud
Hybrid SSL  RSA/ECDHE Support
High Performance SSL Platforms
AWS AutoScale Integration  1-Click Config
Multi-NIC/IP Support in Azure

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• Multi cloud support to mitigate downtime due
to cloud outages
• Active active site redirection based on users’
geographic location
• Monitor servers for responsiveness and
availability
• Prevent single server overload with traffic
distribution
• Broker IoT transactions for high connectivity
Ensuring application
availability
Server monitoring and load management
Health Monitoring  Content Switching
Multi-Site Load Balancing  MQTT Support

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• Terminate SSL traffic on NetScaler
• Device level decryption offloads this process from
your servers
• Reduces the number of servers needed to support
SSL decryption
• Maximize server efficiencies for handling application
requests
• Support new ECC ciphers with high efficiency
Reduce SSL server handling costs
Offload resource intensive SSL decryption
Hybrid SSL  RSA/ECDHE Support
High Performance SSL Platforms

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• Compress application data
• TCP protocol optimization
• Cache static and dynamic content
• Streamline SQL database queries
• Improve web application over mobile
networks
Improve application
performance
Accelerate applications up to 5x
TCP Optimization  Compression
Front-End Optimization  SQL Load Balancing

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• Ensure availability of website with
information related to road closures
during inclement weather occurrences
• Increase the number of site visitors
that can be supported with existing
bandwidth
• Reduced business disruption during a
SharePoint migration
• Meet PCI DSS compliance for ferry
reservations website
Washington State Department of Transportation
“Our public website just doesn’t go down anymore—it’s
as simple as that.”
Aaron Hutchinson, Web Master

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• Accelerates delivery of applications
and data on mobile networks
• Distributes traffic across existing
server infrastructure, eliminating the
need for new servers
• Reduced bandwidth consumption with
compression, caching and TCP
optimization
• Protects servers against brute force
attacks
Aramex International
“If we didn’t have NetScaler, Microsoft Exchange
performance would be much slower and users would
complain.”

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NetScaler Portfolio
ADC
Secure delivery of
traditional & micro-services
Apps
Gateway
Secure Access for Apps
anywhere users everywhere
SD-WAN
Secure & reliable delivery of
Apps to the branch
Management & Analytics System
Application & Infrastructure Intelligence for the data
driven enterprise

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Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN
Citrix XenMobile Client
Citrix ShareFile
Citrix XenApp
Citrix XenDesktop
Citrix XenMobile
Other Apps
Citrix NetScaler
Gateway & ADC
Branch user
For Apps anywhere, Users everywhere
Citrix Receiver
Citrix Receiver
A complete App Delivery solution

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Our Core differentiation &
Advantage

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2016 Magic Quadrant for
Application Delivery Controllers
Source: Gartner report, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites, June 8, 2015, Terrence Cosgrove, Rob Smith, Chris Silva, John Girard, Bryan Taylor
Source: Gartner report, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing, August 6, 2015 Monica Basso, Charles Smulders, Jeffrey Mann
Source: Gartner report, Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, September 12th, 2016, Mark Fabbi, Andrew Lerner
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licensing
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Secure delivery of traditional & micro-services apps
Load Balancing  Acceleration  Security  SSL  Availability  Performance  Visibility
PerformanceAvailability SecurityOffload Visibility

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“Citrix NetScaler leads the
market in innovation and
vision with capabilities
that give us a competitive
advantage.”
Tech Validate ID: 0CE-B5A-F7D
84%of customers agree

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NetScaler Platforms and
Licensing

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Platinum
Enterpris
e
Standar
d
Ensure application availability
with traffic management and
server monitoring
Improve application performance
and manage resource availability
across multiple datacenters
Protect against web-based
attacks and data theft
NetScaler editions

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Platforms
Hardware or software options
Hypervisor
based
Docker Container
based
Multi-tenant
hardware
Single instance
hardware

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Zero-Capacity Hardware
• On premise hardware
• Option for customers to
select the right hardware SKU
based on their performance
needs
• One pool to be shared by all
NetScaler form factors
• Has standard, enterprise and
platinum editions
• Shared by virtual form
factors: VPX on SDX, stand-
alone VPX and CPX
Bandwidth Pool Software Instance Pool
Multiple NetScaler instances
share bandwidth and instance
pool
+ + =
1 2 3
NetScaler Pooled Capacity Licensing
Investment protection in software – minimize CAPEX with new zero capacity
hardware

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Virtual Platforms
Hypervisor Support
Cloud Hosted
<100 Gbps
Performance
Up to
100 Gbps

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Containerized Platforms
Container Support
Performance
Up to
1 Gbps
Container Management Support
<1 Gbps
Free
developer
version

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Hardware Platforms
Performance
L7 Throughput
<200 Gbps
L7 Requests per second
<5.2m
SSL Throughput
<46 Gbps
SSL Requests per second
<560k
<200 Gbps

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Hardware Platforms
<200 Gbps
Performance
L7 Throughput
<200 Gbps
L7 Requests per second
<5.2m
SSL Throughput
<46 Gbps
SSL Requests per second
<560k
Virtual tenants
<115

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FIPS Hardware Platforms
<80 Gbps
Performance
L7 Throughput
<80 Gbps
L7 Requests per second
<2m
SSL Throughput
<30 Gbps
SSL Requests per second
<33k
Virtual tenants
<25

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