Citrix Opens Up NetScaler SDX Platform to Bring App Intelligence to SDN

Citrix today announced the strategy for the next generation of NetScaler SDX, the company's consolidated service delivery networking platform, for software defined networks (SDN). The groundbreaking NetScaler® SDX platform was introduced last year to let customers run up to 40 independent NetScaler application delivery controller instances on a single multi-tenant SDX hardware appliance with full isolation and independence. With today's announcement, Citrix is now opening up the NetScaler SDX platform to support network services from third-party vendors as well. For the first time ever, customers will be able to unify a wide range of best-in-class L4-7 network services in a seamless application control layer to drive app intelligence into existing transport networks and emerging SDN technologies. With this next generation NetScaler SDX platform, customers will also be able to apply app-driven policies across the entire network, while consolidating the delivery and automating the deployment of network services.