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  • Provide mobile workforce with real-time remote access to business-critical applications and data
  • Increase productivity by giving telecommuters a familiar desktop accessible from anywhere
  • Configure, manage and enable application access from one centralised location, reducing cost
  • Eliminate the need to dispatch IT staff to service remote locations with centralised management
  • Use the Internet to deploy applications securely with less bandwidth at lower telecoms costs
  • Enhance customer service with centralised business-critical databases
  • Protect data with a built-in disaster recovery system. Help eliminate costly downtime
  • Enable rapid technology integration following mergers and acquisitions
  • Increase ROI by extending the life of existing technology investments
  • Maximise the productivity of IT staff and reduce IT costs by centralizing data centre operations
  • Allow your employees to continue working from alternative locations including their homes.
The core technology for Citrix and Windows 2000 based application server computing is either the Independent Computing Architecture (ICA®) or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP®) respectively, these are remote presentation services protocols that provide the foundation for turning any client device - thin or fat - into the ultimate thin client. Both technologies include a server software component, a network protocol component, and a client software component. The Server has the ability to separate an application's logic from its user interface. The application executes 100% on the server, and only the user interface is actually transmitted to users. For this reason, application serving is able to centralise all system, application and user management on the server for greater efficiency and lower cost of ownership.
The Thin Client enables an application's user interface, as well as keystrokes and mouse movements, to be transported to and from the client over standard network protocols such as TCP/IP, PPP and over popular network connections; asynchronous, dial-up, ISDN, Frame Relay and ADSL. With a server-based architecture, applications require only a fraction of the network bandwidth of a client/server model. Therefore, Thin Clients allows the latest, most powerful applications to be transmitted rapidly over standard networks. By centralising application processing on the server, the remote desktop protocols turn any device into a thin client that only needs to be able to display and manipulate the user interface. The specific memory features and brand of the device are irrelevant. ICA/RDP supports a wide array of devices, including the latest information appliances as well as traditional PCs and workstations.