NetScaler Product Features

Citrix NetScaler is an all-in-one web application delivery solution that makes applications five times better by accelerating performance, ensuring application availability through advanced L4-7 traffic management, increasing security with an integrated application firewall, and substantially lowering costs by offloading servers. It reduces TCO, optimizes the user experience, and makes sure that applications are always available.

Advanced server offload

NetScaler frees up server processing power by offloading processing for things that servers don't do well such as network processing, Web 2.0 connection management, memory caching, and traffic surge protection. This enables you to deliver more applications to more users while reducing server costs by up to 80 percent.

All-in-one solution

NetScaler integrates multiple capabilities such as L4-L7 switching, SSL acceleration, application firewall, load balancing, caching, and performance monitoring into one single solution. This enables easier deployment, a single point of management, and cost savings on training, support, management efficiency, datacenter power, and floor space.

Application acceleration

Multi-level compression, dynamic content caching, and automated TCP optimization combine to increase user performance by five times or more, while reducing bandwidth and making audio and video traffic usable over throughput-strapped networks.

Open scalable appliance

Whether you're using NetScaler MPX hardware or virtual appliances, Citrix open design means faster rollout, easy extensibility, and simple configuration. What's more, a multi-core, multi-processor design with pay-as-you grow licensing options ensures the highest levels of scalability from virtual appliances to clustered systems.

End-to-end web security

Built-in system intelligence, application fluency, authentication, authorization, and auditing features enable NetScaler to automatically block attacks such as denial of service (DoS) and day zero attacks, even for Web 2.0 applications.

AppExpert Framework

NetScaler understands applications so that you don't have to. IT can rollout new applications in just 30 minutes with preconfigured application templates, intelligent auto-configuration, visual policy tools, and centralized policy management.

Dynamic workload response

NetScaler senses capacity needs in real time and activates additional capacity on demand by leveraging VPX virtual appliances. Dynamic workload response can save up to 80 percent in datacenter power, cooling, and floor space while ensuring that you meet or beat promised SLAs for all classes of applications.

Load balancing

Realize 100 percent application uptime with integrated layer 4 load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB), and high availability (HA). Together, they enable reliable, always-on load management between application servers and across multiple sites for the best possible performance.

Compression and caching

NetScaler leverages advanced multi-level compression for the best possible performance and greatest network bandwidth savings. Furthermore, its robust content cache instantly delivers application content to users while eliminating multiple server requests for duplicate data.

Next generation multi-tenancy architecture

NetScaler VPX brings application and tenant-specific acceleration, security, and traffic management close to the application in a flexible software tier that makes shared services work for cloud and enterprise datacenters. This complements NetScaler MPX hardware appliances at the datacenter edge that are handling large-scale services common to all tenants.

Application performance monitoring

Citrix EdgeSight for NetScaler builds application visibility into the application delivery infrastructure, providing end-user performance monitoring for Web applications and enabling IT managers to proactively manage performance and application availability based upon actual user experience.