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Citrix Acquires Orbital Data, Enters WAN Optimisation Market

Citrix Systems has announced an expansion of its end-to-end application delivery strategy to users in branch offices and other remote locations. As a cornerstone of this strategy, Citrix announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Orbital Data, a provider of solutions that optimize the delivery of applications over Wide Area Networks (WANs).

An estimated 55 percent of enterprise employees today access all of their mission-critical business applications from a remote office or branch location, often hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the corporate data center. As remote employees use these applications, data must travel back-and-forth many times over long-distance WANs, a process that can significantly degrade performance and the user experience, and force expensive bandwidth upgrades in an attempt to solve these challenges. The growing problem has given rise in recent years to a new category of products that optimise the flow of all applications over the WAN, including client-server, web, file sharing, bulk data transfer and even new application types such as voice-over-IP and video. According to IDC Research, the market for WAN optimization products was USD 314 million last year and is expected to nearly double over the next three years, reaching USD 610 million by 2009.


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