Citrix Branch Repeater™ is a WAN optimization solution that accelerates application delivery to branch office users while dramatically reducing WAN bandwidth requirements and simplifying branch IT infrastructure. Branch Repeater dramatically increases productivity by providing a high definition user experience over any network. Branch Repeater also reduces costs by improving utilization of existing WAN bandwidth and by streamlining branch IT start-up and management.

The Branch Repeater product family addresses the full range of WAN optimization scenarios and delivers unparalleled application acceleration benefits, especially for Citrix XenDesktop™ and Citrix XenApp™.

ICA acceleration and multi-user optimization for XenDesktop and XenApp

Unlike traditional WAN optimization solutions, only Branch Repeater incorporates Citrix HDX™ technologies to optimize virtual desktop delivery. With HDX IntelliCache technologies, Branch Repeater provides local caching and de-duplication across multiple XenDesktop or XenApp (ICA) user sessions and local staging of XenApp streamed applications. And with HDX Broadcast technologies, Branch Repeater delivers groundbreaking new adaptive orchestration capabilities for XenDesktop and XenApp, sensing real-time network and traffic conditions, and dynamically optimizing delivery to branch offices. Together these capabilities deliver breakthrough ICA acceleration and allow IT to support up to 4X more users in each branch office without upgrading network bandwidth.

Application acceleration and IT consolidation

Branch Repeater also provides application acceleration benefits for other centralized applications delivered to the branch office including file sharing, e-mail and enterprise Web applications. Only Branch Repeater optimizes the delivery of hosted (ICA), streamed and native applications, thereby helping customers accelerate their IT consolidation initiatives while ensuring a high-performance experience in the branch office. To further enable consolidation within the branch, Branch Repeater™ with Windows Server® delivers essential branch IT services such as file, print, authentication, and core network services such as DHCP and DNS, all provided by Microsoft® Windows Server®.  

Want to know more?

• Understand the role of WAN optimization for virtual application delivery.
• Learn how ICA acceleration speeds launch times, printing, file transfers and more.
• Discover how branch simplification can slash branch IT costs by 80%.