As mentioned in Sai's post last week, Access Gateway is now available as a virtual appliance. This brings all the benefits of server virtualization to the network appliance space: rapid deployment, high availability, and quick recovery in response to hardware problems.

Virtualizing Access Gateway also dramatically lowers the cost of an Access Gateway solution, enabling more customers to afford the value it brings to any Citrix deployment: strong authentication, network-layer tunneling, endpoint interrogation, and adaptive access control just to name a few. But, as I have heard from many of you since the initial launch of Access Gateway several years ago, requiring a per-CCU license for ICA connections still made Access Gateway comparatively expensive, given that the Windows-based Secure Gateway component allowed unlimited connections to XenApp for free. The per-user license cost prevented many of you from deploying Access Gateway.

That's why when we launched Access Gateway VPX, we also fundamentally changed the pricing and packaging for the Access Gateway product line. All Access Gateway appliances now include free, unlimited secure access to XenApp hosted applications and XenDesktop hosted desktops.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Access Gateway now includes unlimited connections to XenApp or XenDesktop- The Citrix Blogs