Today, Citrix announced the release date of their NetScaler MPX 25000 series, a carrier-grade application delivery controller (ADC) for communications service providers. NetScaler is a two rack-unit (2RU) 160 gigabit-per-second appliance that enables operators to scale mobile S/Gi-LAN data plane capacity to 3.5 terabits-per-second while preserving earlier capacity investments. As operators shift towards NFV, the NetScaler MPX 25000 series can enable that transition by converting to a multi-tenant platform supporting dozens of virtual ADC instances.
Citrix NetScaler MPX 25000 will be generally available March 16, 2015.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has revealed that the licensing recently changed to a plus model, which is manageable if you know what you are doing. However, the transition from old licensing files to a cloud-based solution caused a lot of issues for customers. Pricing increased significantly, as one customer went from paying 100,000 euros a year for their NetScaler solut...
Manager IT at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2020
Its licensing cost is much higher than other products, but it is acceptable because it is a one-time investment, and we are getting our requirements fulfilled when we buy this product. So, there is no issue with the pricing.
IT Consultant at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Jan 19, 2023
The pricing could be lower. The actual device itself is included in the license, so the fact that you have to license virtual machines on it is the price point that could be lower.
There are a few questions. What is the problem you are fixing with the ADC? Is there a reason or application that makes you want to lean towards Citrix versus another vendor? Second, as mentioned by others, most ADCs will do L4-7 load balancing. So the questions to differentiate is how easy is it to learn/configure, how easy is it to maintain/operate on a day to day basis, and how expensive...
Senior solution architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Dec 14, 2020
For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc.
Total Solution System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Dec 14, 2020
If you are only looking for leading L4-L7 load balancing features, go for Citrix ADC as it is much easier with the GUI and writing Traffic policy is much much easier with GUI app expert syntax - What you see is what you get. Easier to transfer complex admin tasks/rules to another team or Colleague.
F5 also provide leading L4-L7 load balancing features but F5's GUI is not as easy and compact as Citrix ADC. Some commonly used menus that should appear next to the main topic are hidden and you have to drill down too much just to configure simple tasks.
With F5 iRule you need to write some basic iRule coding with correct syntax {asd{asd a}adsas } which could be complex and hard to transfer to another team or Colleague.
(it's not that hard but more learning curve and more point to get error with the syntax)
Citrix ADC also provides free SSL VPN from STD:500, EE:1000, Platinum: Unlimited.
And also free ICA proxy for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops from external network.
