Having access to the all the information you need from anywhere is fantastic, however, non-critical applications tend to dominate in the battle for bandwidth on congested WAN-access links. Poor response times for end users means a loss of productivity. It is easy to throw more bandwidth at the problem, but that is not a cost effective solution. Being able to prioritise business applications and achieve a balance, which delivers a quality service can be achieved through the use of the right tools.

The introduction of Sever Based Computing can completely transform the bandwidth requirements on a wide area network. Instead of transmitting raw application data it is just keystrokes, mouse clicks and screen updates traversing the link. Citrix are the pioneers and market leaders in Windows server based computing and their WAN optimised ICA3 protocol requires much less bandwidth than the LAN optimised Microsoft RDP. No matter how bandwidth hungry the application, Citrix ICA3 will deliver sparkling performance over the slowest link. Citrix XenApp is the latest generation of this award winning software.

Todays organisations need performance, predictability and consistency from their networks and the applications which traverse them. Bandwidth needs to be managed like any other scarce resource. Priority need to be given to latency sensitive applications whilst throttling back the bandwidth hogs. That is precisely what PacketShaper ® from BlueCoat delivers.