Abstract

Citrix Systems, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its Citrix Access Gateway, an SSL/VPN appliance that provides a secure, always-on, single point of access for applications and resources. The Tolly Group was asked to compare the Citrix Access Gateway performance against a Juniper Networks NetScreen SA-1000, a remote access security device serving small-to-medium-sized companies.

Tolly Group engineers performed several tests to compare each SSL/VPN appliance. The performance of running common business tasks remotely over Citrix Presentation Server 4, specifically file transfer, remote printing and PowerPoint presentations, was measured by computing the elapsed time (in seconds) and bytes sent. Lastly, Tolly Group engineers examined the effectiveness of endpoint security when a client is connected through the SSL/VPN appliance.