Citrix Systems has announced the expansion of its Citrix Delivery Centre™ product family with three important new additions.  The company has unveiled innovative new “repeaters” and “receivers” that help corporate IT organisations provide a similar level of service when delivering desktops and applications to end users around the world.

These new additions further extend the value of Citrix Delivery Centre, using advanced virtualisation and networking technologies to help customers transform static Datacentres into dynamic “delivery centres” for the best performance, security, cost savings and business agility.

Just as digital television repeaters amplify and retransmit media signals to homes in a given neighbourhood, the new Citrix Branch Repeater™ is an easy-to-deploy appliance that sits between corporate Datacentres and branch offices, amplifying and retransmitting applications to branch office users. Similarly, the new Citrix Desktop Receiver™ and Citrix App Receiver™ are lightweight software clients that run on end user devices and are responsible for receiving the delivery of centralised desktops and applications with an unparalleled user experience. Both receivers offer an extensible architecture that will support plug-ins from existing Citrix delivery infrastructure systems as well as third parties.

With these new additions, the Citrix Delivery Centre product family now includes four classes of infrastructure components deployed along the line-of-sight between applications and desktops in the Datacentre, and end users in any location: controllers, gateways, repeaters and receivers. Each of these components plays a key role in making IT environments more secure, efficient and responsive to business changes.