Citrix
today announced significant momentum in the adoption of its telco-grade
NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) platform within mobile
core networks, including those of many of the world’s largest Tier-1
communications service providers. The 100-million subscriber milestone
reflects Citrix success in addressing the urgent need for operators to
manage the onslaught of data and video, while ensuring they can
effectively navigate the transition to network functions virtualization
(NFV).
The telco-grade NetScaler, which is available as a single, multi-tenant
or NFV-ready virtual appliance, supports leading open source
orchestration systems and a full complement of telco-centric features.
Deployed both within and outside the core network, NetScaler enables
SLA-supported cloud services in the world’s largest telco clouds,
leveraging Citrix
TriScale technology to deliver to operators the industry’s most
flexible and scalable economics. Within the core, NetScaler ensures
scalable, cost-effective delivery of data and control plane applications
and is a key enabler for Citrix
ByteMobile Adaptive Traffic Management deployments in the mobile Gi
LAN. With telco-proven availability and cloud-proven deployment
flexibility, NetScaler supports the scale, agility and integration
requirements of virtual next generation networks.
“The ADC plays a critical and ubiquitous role within the NFV
Infrastructure (NFVI), helping to ensure the carrier-grade performance
of virtual network functions and preserving user experience,” said
Graham Finnie, chief analyst, Heavy Reading. “As part of the business
case for NFV, operators want to minimize the costs of NFVI components
including ADCs, while retaining architectural flexibility through choice
of form factor. They will be looking for an ADC that has proven
performance at massive scale and which also supports specific telco
functionality that network functions need.”
“Supporting both 3G and 4G networks with over 23 million subscribers
from our mobile business, True faces exponential traffic growth,” said
Dr. Viriya Upatising, Chief Technology Officer, True Corporation Plc.
“We needed a high capacity, low latency, telco-grade ADC that would
optimize the performance of True’s applications, scale to support
additional subscribers and enhance the subscriber experience. We are
extremely happy with the performance of NetScaler and the support we
receive from the in-region Citrix sales, support and services team is
excellent. Citrix enables us to deliver applications and services at the
performance level our subscribers expect while leveraging the flexible
NetScaler architecture and elastic cost structure to strengthen our plan
for the future."
“Operators agree that service agility benefits are much more
game-changing where cost (capex and opex) savings will be a by-product,
as they move to virtualized next generation networks (vNGNs), which will
employ cloud computing, NFV and software-defined networking (SDN)
technologies,” said Glen Ragoonanan, principal analyst, Analysys Mason.
“Citrix is a potential key player with high performance, scalable
solutions in all these areas. Citrix NetScaler ADC is but one of its
virtualized network function (VNF) solution offerings, to-date.”
Enabling a service-agile network
A truly service-agile network supports a business transformation that
dramatically accelerates time-to-revenue for new services, giving
operators the ability to better compete – and cooperate – with third
party providers of end user services and applications. NetScaler has
been architected to improve service agility by:
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Ensuring that ADC functionality can be integrated into an NFV network
through support for multiple orchestration systems, including
CloudStack, OpenStack and Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand, with a framework
to support emerging orchestrators;
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Enabling the creation of an application delivery layer that can be
shared across virtual functions, across data, control and application
planes and even across enterprise services and IT cloud infrastructure;
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Having the ability to evolve to an NFV environment as an element of
the NFV Infrastructure layer (NFVI);
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Eliminating as a bottleneck the availability of ADC resources needed
to support the rapid instantiation and scaling of the virtual
functions that enable new services.
Applying cloud-scale economics to the NFV transition
Economic flexibility is a cornerstone of the business case for NFV but
practical constraints dictate that physical and virtual networks will
coexist for some years to come. NetScaler is designed to bridge the gap
between physical and virtual, enabling an elastic, just-in-time cost
structure through:
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Consolidation of up to eighty virtual ADCs within a single physical
appliance that can be further scaled to a commonly managed pool of
hundreds virtual ADC instances – the basis for a common application
delivery layer within the NFV infrastructure;
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Software license-enabled capacity growth, matching expense to traffic;
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Large-scale clustering of physical appliances into a single functional
ADC, minimizing the problem of aborted capex investment;
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Feature, function and OAM equivalence across entire physical and
virtual ADC portfolio.
“Mobile operators have entered what is likely to be a decade-long
transition to NFV, driven by a need to deliver a wider array of network
services more quickly with a flexible cost structure that matches that
commercial speed and the corresponding unpredictable traffic patterns,”
said Klaus Oestermann, group vice president and general manager, Cloud
Networking at Citrix. “This transition period will be inherently
difficult, as different portions of the network – even different
portions of the core network – will be at different stages of
virtualization. All the while, data and video traffic will continue its
dizzying growth, competition between operators will intensify and the
urgency to identify new sources of revenue will become even more
pressing. With its expansive portfolio of virtual next generation
network solutions, Citrix is in a unique position to help operators
address these issues.”
See Citrix at LTE
World Summit 2014 taking place at the Amsterdam RAI, June 24-25 at
the company’s booth, stand 44A.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing
virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to
enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility
through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant
access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over
any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of
innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With annual
revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more
than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn
more at www.citrix.com.
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