Citrix Sets New Standard in Web Application Delivery with NetScaler 7.0; New Citrix NetScaler Release Delivers 150 New Features, Including Enhanced Scalability, Improved Application Fluency and Unprecedented Manageability

Business Wire, Sept 19, 2006

NEW YORK -- Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) today announced the latest upgrade to its popular Citrix(R) NetScaler(R) product line. The new Citrix NetScaler 7.0 release again raises the bar for web application delivery, making it dramatically easier for enterprises to accelerate the performance of business-critical web applications, secure sensitive application data and lower the cost of delivering web applications to any user, in any location.

The Citrix NetScaler 7.0 release builds on the product's widely-recognized success in delivering the world's largest and most demanding web applications, improving the web experience of an estimated 75 percent of all Internet users each day. Since acquiring the NetScaler product line last year, Citrix has introduced the benefits of NetScaler to companies of all sizes through its extensive worldwide channel, resulting in one of the fastest growth rates in the web application delivery market(1).

"Citrix NetScaler pioneered the web application delivery market and is making it increasingly easy for enterprise customers to upgrade from first-generation load balancers to highly integrated NetScaler systems that dramatically improve the performance, security and cost of delivering web applications," said Wes Wasson, corporate vice president, product marketing and strategy, Citrix Systems. "This latest release of Citrix NetScaler extends our leadership in this market and further advances state-of-the-art web application delivery."

150 New Capabilities for Web Application Delivery

The new Citrix NetScaler 7.0 release adds more than 150 new capabilities designed to meet the increasing web application delivery demands of enterprise customers across all functional areas, including:

--Record Application Scalability - Now supports up to 15,000 servers supported in a single application environment - a three-fold increase over Citrix's already record-level scalability. Advanced management of policy elements also allows automated configuration changes to be made across large numbers of objects, such as servers and application services.

--More Powerful Application Policy Management - Adds numerous enhancements to Citrix NetScaler's application policy management framework, AppExpert(TM), including an enhanced ability to rewrite HTTP headers for highly complex Web applications. Additional enhancements include full bi-directional rewriting of headers and URLs, allowing organizations to more rapidly integrate independently-developed applications while publishing a single, consistent Web URL address to all users.

--Improved Application Availability - More sophisticated application health monitoring capabilities that provide early warnings of potential problems with critical transactional elements in complex web applications.

--Expanded Application Security - Additional capabilities that protect sensitive internal details of an application infrastructure, such as IP addresses, internal URLs and directory files. The new release also incorporates numerous additional security capabilities, including enhanced management of access control lists (ACLs) that simplify the control of traffic permitted within a trusted application environment.

--Enhanced Ease of Configuration and Management - Substantial improvements in ease-of-use across the entire product line, including new configuration wizards that automate set-up tasks and substantially reduce deployment times for both network administrators and channel partners. The new release also includes multiple advances to NetScaler's graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line interface (CLI), making policy management even more intuitive and enabling application delivery policy management by non-networking specialists.

--Simplified SSL Security Management - Simple, wizard-driven creation of SSL certificates that are used to encrypt sensitive web application data. Strong security and continuous application availability is maintained with automated warnings of SSL certificates about to expire.

--Support for New Application Types - Expanded support for application traffic such as voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) through capabilities like load balancing for session initiation protocol (SIP) servers.

Pricing and Availability

Citrix NetScaler 7.0 is available immediately. Pricing begins at $17,499 per system.

About Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery System

Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery System optimizes the delivery of web applications -- improving performance up to 15x, increasing security, and potentially doubling web server capacity at half the cost -- ensuring the best total cost of ownership (TCO), security, availability, and performance for web applications. Citrix NetScaler System is a comprehensive network system that combines high-speed load balancing and content switching with state-of-the-art application acceleration, layer 4-7 traffic management, data compression, static and dynamic content caching, SSL acceleration, numerous network optimizations, and robust application security into a single, tightly integrated solution. Deployed in front of application servers, the system significantly reduces processing overhead on application and database servers, reducing hardware and bandwidth costs.