With Net6, Citrix will give customers a single point of access and on demand access to both voice and data across any device type.
"Given the market position of Citrix, this will immediately make the Net6 VPN product -- which supports both SSL VPNs and IPSec VPNs -- a major market leader," said Adam Lipson, president and CEO of Network & Security Technologies, Pearl River, N.Y. "Citrix will be giving Net6 the opportunity to compete with the big guys like Cisco and Nortel. Further, Citrix has signaled their intention to compete more in that space by acquiring a company who has experience with IP telephony and mobile technology in addition to their VPN devices."
Citrix has thousand of consulting partners and resellers. In July, Net6 announced a new channel program designed to give partners a 30 percent margin on new sales. It's unclear how the deal might impact that but Citrix claims that Net6 will continue to operate in San Jose, Calif. led by current CEO Murli Thirumale.
Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix, said during a conference call on Tuesday afternoon that it will offer the Access Gateway product to its value-added resellers beginning in the first quarter of 2005 and will make Net6 training materials available to those partners.
He said Citrix is hoping the appliance buy will enable Citrix to get a better foothold in the SMB market and add value to its MetaFrame Access Suite. "We can hit the ground running with this product and touch a lot of North American resellers," he said. "We're doing to offer it as a standalone ... there's lot of opportunity to do integration work and tie an access gateway into our management infrastructure and session managemnt and SmoothRoaming capabilities."
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
