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CITRIX Branch Repeater – Advanced Options

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CITRIX have a neat new product available for WAN Optimisation that works hand-in-hand with their WANScaler range of products. Designed for those sites that have too many staff for *just* a WAN link and not enough to warrant an onsite Server.

The Branch Repeater is a little 1RU server designed for a standard COMMS rack, which apart from applying CoS policies and compressing traffic flowing through other WANScalers runs Windows Server 2003 R2. So you can configure it to host DHCP, DNS, WINS, DC, GC, Printer Shares, FRS, etc.

A little known fact is that pressing Ctrl + Alt + W will bring up additional debugging options on the BranchRepeater system tray icon.

Personally I don’t know why they hid it, just means people like me who have to install and support these lives are that little bit harder..