The mobile video market is growing at an average annual rate of 62%
Global mobile data traffic to increase by 75% by 2020

Citrix (www.citrix.co.kr) announced the launch of its new 'NetScaler® T1000' series at the Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC 2016), the world's largest mobile exhibition currently being held in Barcelona, Spain. This product was launched to meet market demands for a platform to service the increasing volume of mobile video and content, combining ByteMobile's optimization technology with the high-performance NetScaler platform architecture.

The 2016 Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast report predicts that the mobile video market will grow at an average annual rate of 62% between 2015 and 2020, and that global mobile data traffic consisting of video traffic will increase by 75% by 2020. Therefore, ISPs need effective network operations solutions to respond to the increasing trend of mobile traffic. Service providers also require a stable platform capable of delivering high-quality video without delay and manipulating traffic through the most efficient management paths, as well as providing network speed enhancements, cost reductions, and functionality maintenance capabilities.

The newly announced NetScaler T1000 Series aligns with these market trends by integrating subscriber-aware steering, optimization, load balancing, CGNAT, and special traffic identification and optimization technologies. As the only platform seamlessly utilized across physical, hybrid, virtualized, and containerized implementations to facilitate migration to NFV, it features low-cost per-capacity scalability and guarantees the ability to evolve network elements of different speeds. Furthermore, it possesses key features such as a flexible architecture capable of managing different types of traffic, extended capacity enabling operational agility and flexibility, enhanced efficiency through high infrastructure utilization and consolidation rates, and reduced TCO for data center and network operations.

Integrating multiple use cases on a single platform
Mobile S/Gi-LAN Service Expansion

Multiple use cases can be integrated on a single platform. Operators can simplify S/Gi-LAN deployment and reduce complexity and inefficiencies. The most effective integration scenarios are Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT), data plane load balancing optimization, and traffic steering. Mobile S/Gi-LAN service extensions enable operators to extend all network use cases, including optimization and load balancing, CGNAT, data plane optimization and traffic steering; LTE DNS, SMPP, SIP, and diameter load balancing in the control plane.

With platforms and scalability options to address different network sizes, the NetScaler T1000 supports speeds from 20 Gbps to 100 Gbps and from 100 Gbps to 160 Gbps, and features a paygrow option that allows for license upgrades to higher throughput. Additionally, the appliance's clustering can scale capacity up to 3.3 Tbps.

With enhanced CAPEX and OPEX, the NetScaler T1000 dramatically lowers the cost per gigabit capacity while providing up to one-third the cost of competitive ASIC-based platforms. Mobile operators can augment their networks and lower overall cost of ownership through NetScaler.

Transition to Automated and Virtualized Networks – NetScaler is certified with popular OpenStack distributions such as Red Hat and Mirantis and can be deployed as Physical Network Functions (PNFs). Additionally, NetScaler Virtual ACDs, which are VPXs, can coexist with NetScaler PNFs in hybrid networks by exposing the same APIs to NFV orchestration platforms, allowing all NetScalers to be managed using the same management framework.

Chris Koopmans, Vice President of Service Provider Platform at Citrix, said, “Citrix is improving the economics of mobile traffic management by providing an innovative solution that combines Byte Mobile’s optimization technology with the NetScaler ADC platform.” “With traffic continuing to grow rapidly, service providers need an integrated platform that can scale according to demand while reducing costs. Through NetScaler, customers can improve overall network efficiency and provide an enhanced subscriber experience,” he said.