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Citrix's GoToAssist: Next Best Thing to Being There: Page 2 of 5

As an agent, I could share and control the customer's screen to troubleshoot or let the customer view and control my screen for educational and training purposes. The remote-control or screen-sharing function can be terminated by either party at any time.

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The GTA service was snappy, despite traversing remote servers. Screen refreshes were transferred to the agent in seconds, and the delay for mouse and keyboard controls over the remote machine was easily tolerated. GTA also includes a reboot-reconnect feature with a file-transfer application and a URL push tool.

Citrix's file transfer goes through the communication servers just like KVM commands, so it was much slower than a point-to-point FTP transfer. Pushing a URL to a customer was much faster--seconds over DSL.