Riverbed for Citrix

Citrix LogoDesktop virtualisation products like Citrix ICA and VMware VDI & View are being considered more and more today to remove the direct physical ties between desktop hardware, servers, and end user applications. Quality of end user experience is the one area that most often can make or break the success of a VDI initiative.

WAN bandwidth constraints and latency can be overcome using WAN optimisation to improve the response time and quality of both native and desktop virtualisation solutions.

Extensive testing has shown that Riverbed reduces bandwidth utilisation for desktop virtualisation by 50% to 90% while response time for activities like login can be improved 5X. These improvements are achieved with more efficient compression algorithms, memory-based deduplication of the data to be transferred, TCP tuning, QoS enabling prioritisation of traffic and reduction of native traffic on the WAN.

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