Citrix Systems has announced that Frost & Sullivan has chosen Citrix Access Gateway as the winner of the 2007 Stratecast Award for Innovation in SSL VPN Product Direction. The award acknowledges Citrix's product vision and execution in addressing the market need for secure access solutions that are part of end-to-end application delivery infrastructure.

Citrix Access Gateway delivers access to an application with endpoint analysis capabilities, while accelerating and optimising VPN traffic to support up to 10,000 concurrent users per appliance.

According to Michael Suby, programme manager, Stratecast, a division of Frost and Sullivan, "Based on its strategic vision and demonstrated execution abilities, Citrix has positioned itself as an SSL VPN market leader with Access Gateway by supporting the need for an integrated application delivery infrastructure that takes into account granular application access control, scalability and security."

"Citrix is committed to providing a complete application delivery infrastructure that provides the best performance, highest security and lowest total cost. As a part of this effort, we're proud to be recognised by Stratecast as a leader in the SSL VPN market with Citrix Access Gateway," said Phil Montgomery, director of product marketing, Citrix Systems.