Citrix Improves the Economics of Managing Mobile Traffic
February 21 2016 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
New NetScaler Platform with Optimization
Technology Offers Extreme Performance and Scalability for Service
Providers and Delivers Improved Subscriber Experience
The nature of the mobile network has changed significantly with
the rapid growth of mobile traffic, specifically the rise of
encrypted mobile video and content, and the build-out of LTE and
LTE-advanced networks. This shift has been highly disruptive for
service providers struggling to achieve the best total cost of
ownership (TCO) from the strategic platforms within their
infrastructure. Service providers need platforms that readily adapt
to dynamic traffic trends and, help them deliver highly efficient
and profitable services that can maximize the yield of their LTE
networks. Service providers require leading-edge technology focused
on improving the subscriber experience, which today largely means
the availability of higher quality media content with less video
stalling. The mobile video experience is fast becoming a key
enabler to attracting and retaining mobile subscribers.
Today, Citrix announced the availability of the new NetScaler
T1000 series which integrates proven ByteMobile optimization
technology with the highly scalable, higher performance NetScaler
platform architecture. This innovative Citrix solution vastly
improves the economics of mobile traffic handling. The NetScaler
T1000 offers service providers the industry’s leading
price-performance platform that combines optimization technology
for enhanced mobile subscriber experience with ADC technology for
improved network efficiency. The software-first foundation that
powers the Citrix Networking portfolio helps customers protect and
future-proof their technology investments as the NetScaler platform
can be easily updated to address new technologies and industry
trends for the secure delivery of applications and data.
The Evolution of Traffic
To ensure future success, service providers need a platform that
can easily scale out to meet the continued explosive rapid growth
of mobile traffic - specifically the rise of encrypted mobile video
and content. According to the 2016 Cisco Visual Networking Index
(VNI) Forecast, mobile video will grow at a CAGR of 62 percent
between 2015 and 2020 with three-fourths (75 percent) of the
world’s mobile data traffic consisting of video traffic by
2020.
Service providers need a solution that directly addresses the
evolution of this traffic. Mobile video presently places the most
stress on the mobile network yet its delivery serves as a key
differentiator within the highly competitive mobile service
provider marketplace. The optimization of this traffic becomes even
more essential to meet the demands to improve network efficiency
and enhance user experience – providing higher quality videos with
less stalling to ultimately enhance subscriber quality of
experience (QoE). Service providers are also seeking a platform
that can dynamically and efficiently steer traffic through the most
efficient service paths, directly determined by the subscribers’
needs. This helps reduce latency, improve speed and preserve
functionality. Perhaps most importantly however, this can greatly
reduce the costs to the service provider in delivering new
services. The NetScaler T1000 platform combines subscriber-aware
steering, load balancing, CGNAT and unique traffic identification
and optimization technology - all in one single platform.
NetScaler is the only platform that can: scale at a dramatically
lower cost per unit of capacity; provide the fluidity to evolve
different elements of a network at different rates; and be
leveraged seamlessly across physical, hybrid and fully virtualized
and containerized implementations to assist the migration to
NFV.
As the leader in the application virtualization and delivery
markets, Citrix introduces this new enhanced platform which
includes: a flexible architecture to manage different types of
traffic; increased capacity which enables operational agility and
flexibility; enhanced IT efficiencies through higher infrastructure
utilization and consolidation ratios; and lower TCO of datacenter
and network operations.
Additional benefits of the NetScaler T1000 for service providers
include providing the ability to:
- Consolidate multiple functions on a
single platform – Allows operators to simplify S/Gi-LAN
deployment and reduce complexity and inefficiency. The most
impactful consolidated scenario is that of carrier-grade network
address translation (CGNAT), data-plane load balancing,
optimization and traffic steering.
- Scale mobile S/Gi-LAN services –
Enables operators to scale out any network use case, including
optimization and load balancing, CGNAT, optimization and
traffic-steering in the data plane; and LTE DNS, SMPP, SIP, and
Diameter load-balancing in the control plane.
- Platform and scalability options to
address different network sizes – NetScaler T1000 comes in
models supporting from 20 Gbps to 100 Gbps and 100 Gbps to 160 Gbps
with paygrow options that allow license upgrades to higher
throughputs. Furthermore, clustering of appliances can scale
capacity up to 3.3 Tbps.
- Improved CAPEX and OPEX –
NetScaler T1000 significantly lowers the cost per Gigabit capacity,
providing up to 1/3 the cost of competitive ASIC-based platforms.
Mobile operators can augment their networks with NetScaler and
lower their overall total cost of ownership.
- Transition to automated and
virtualized networks – NetScaler is certified with popular
OpenStack distributions, such as Red Hat and Mirantis, and can be
deployed as a physical network function (PNF). Furthermore, the
NetScaler virtual ADCs, the VPX, can co-exist with NetScaler PNFs
in a hybrid network exposing the same APIs to NFV orchestration
platforms allowing all NetScaler platforms to be managed using the
same management framework.
Chris Koopmans, Vice President and General Manager, Service
Provider Platform at Citrix
“We are improving the economics of mobile traffic management by
delivering an innovative solution that combines ByteMobile
optimization technology with NetScaler ADC platform, to help
improve overall network efficiency and deliver an enhanced
subscriber experience. In a world where traffic keeps growing at a
rapid pace, service providers need a consolidated platform that
scales with demand while also reducing costs.”
Availability
Citrix NetScaler T1000 will be generally available in Q1
2016.
Related Links
- Announcement: Citrix Introduces
Next-Generation Carrier-Grade NetScaler for Communications Service
Providers
- Blog: Citrix Delivering Next-Generation
ADC for IoT
- Blog: NetScaler VPX Hits a New 100Gbps
High!
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page
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