Windows 64bit, Terminal Services, Citrix, Thin Client, VMware / VirtualPC / VDI

Often get asked who is the clear winner in SSL VPN Technology. Over the past year I have done in-depth analysis on each solution (soon to be published) and seems that the same answer
keeps coming as most of the big business news lines have just come up with.

Juniper's Secure Access SSL VPN Product line (formally known as Neoteris / Netscreen), “is the Winner”, yes, there are other vendors; Citrix Systems CAG (formally NET6), Aventail,
Whale Communications etc. However they all seem to be missing something. It's taken a while to figure it out but that's because basically it's leading by a country mile across the board.

But the main items are

Awesome Flexibility
Very clean and slick architecture across the platform
Broad client support

In a few words "it does what it says on the tin",

Really it looks and feels like an appliance should, network teams love it, there’s diagnostic tools and the specialists involved with implementing the kit are network and security specialists.

Other Vendors / Resellers provide server or windows engineers that have migrated, or are playing in the network space. Only the other day a company was doing an evaluation between a
Citrix CAG and a Juniper SA 4000. The Juniper Consultant had a SA 4000 up and running in a morning, the Citrix CAG box, well, what can I say "licensing issues, network issues,
and no diagnostic tools" even though there were two internal customer networks people working with the Citrix Consultant, he had to give in trying to get it to work, it was boxed up and returned.

By no means am I saying that Juniper can do everything or that it should be the defacto choice if looking at SSL VPN, what I like to say is I would recommend to anyone as with every
piece of technology out there that "do your homework", look at the comparisons, get demo kit then make a decision.