Citrix Introduces Next-Generation Carrier-Grade Netscaler for Communications Service Providers
March 01 2015 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Delivers Up to 300% Better Performance-to-Price
than Competing Products
Today, Citrix announced the availability of the NetScaler® MPX
25000 series, a carrier-grade application delivery controller (ADC)
for communications service providers featuring Citrix TriScale®
technology and the industry’s highest performance-to-price ratio.
The next-generation NetScaler is a two rack-unit (2RU) 160
gigabit-per-second appliance that enables operators to scale mobile
S/Gi-LAN data plane capacity to 3.5 terabits-per-second while
preserving earlier capacity investments. As operators shift towards
NFV, the NetScaler MPX 25000 series can enable that transition by
converting to a multi-tenant platform supporting dozens of virtual
ADC instances. The new appliances solve the challenges of
cost-prohibitive capacity scaling, underutilized application
delivery investments and the absence of physical-to-virtual
application delivery alternatives.
To ensure future success, mobile network operators must find
ways to support mass scale at a dramatically lower cost per unit of
capacity, while ensuring the ability to evolve different elements
of their network at different rates. These cloud-scale efficiencies
and economics are built into the NetScaler MPX 25000 series. By
using merchant silicon rather than the custom ASICs common to
competing ADC products, NetScaler benefits from a steeper processor
price-performance curve, one that translates directly to a
performance-to-price ratio advantage. This approach, combined with
the NetScaler software-defined architecture, provides operators
with the flexibility to migrate from physical to virtual appliances
on the same platform. Whether implemented in this fashion or
deployed as new, the NetScaler virtual instances offer identical
functionality to the NetScaler MPX 25000 appliances.
Cloud-Scale Economics Enable New Price-Performance
Standard
As the industry’s leading ADC for public and telco clouds, which
require tens of thousands of servers, NetScaler has been designed
to ensure cost-effective deployment at scale. The carrier-grade
NetScaler MPX 25000 series has a:
- 1.5X higher performance-to-price
ratio than competing chassis-based products
- 3X higher performance-to-price
ratio than competing appliance-based products
Additional benefits of the NetScaler MPX 25000 for communication
service providers include providing the ability to:
- Scale mobile S/Gi-LAN services –
Enables operators to scale any network use case, including
optimization and gateway load balancing, CGNAT and traffic-steering
in the data plane; and LTE DNS, SMPP, SIP, and Diameter
load-balancing in the control plane.
- Consolidate multiple use cases on a
single platform – Allows operators to reduce use case-specific
deployments that add complexity and inefficiency to the S/Gi-LAN
environment. The most impactful consolidated scenario is that of
carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) and data-plane
load balancing and, optionally, traffic steering.
- Minimize stranded investments –
Helps operators protect their network infrastructure investment
through Citrix TriScale® scale-out clustering, which enables
multiple appliances to be treated as a single logical and
functional unit. As operators look to minimize up-front investment
and scale capacity with new hardware, they can continue to make use
of the original hardware.
- Bridge the NFV gap – Helps
operators protect and transition their network infrastructure to
multi-tenant appliances supporting up to eighty virtual ADC
instances with Citrix TriScale scale-in multi-tenancy.
Quotes
Gabriel Brown, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading
“Mobile operators absolutely want to adopt cloud-scale
technologies and bring high-volume data-center economics to their
networks. A low cost-of-production, in combination with dynamic
control of network resources through software, will make it easier
and faster to pursue new commercial opportunities.”
Klaus Oestermann, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Delivery Networks, Citrix
“The NFV-driven discontinuity in the mobile industry is
challenging operators to re-architect and rethink their delivery
networks. Drawing on our experience from deployments in more
than 140 mobile networks and in the world’s largest public clouds,
Citrix continues to deliver the technology innovation to help
mobile operators transform their networks. This is made possible by
NetScaler - the industry’s only fully software-defined ADC. As
mobile operators have started to transition the S/Gi-LAN to this
new paradigm, they’ve highlighted to us the need to scale their
networks now while significantly bending the cost curve. With the
new NetScaler MPX 25000 platform, we’ve taken everything we know
about cloud-scale economics and put it into an appliance that
dramatically lowers the price/performance bar for ADCs in the
mobile network.”
Availability
Citrix NetScaler MPX 25000 will be generally available March 16,
2015.
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