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As part of the VMware vClient initiative, VMware has announced a strategic partnership with Teradici to include Teradici's PC-Over-IP technology as part of VMware View.

VMware will license the Teradici PC-Over-IP display protocol and will work with Teradici to co-develop and expand PC-Over-IP.


The PC-Over-IP display protocol is breakthrough technology that truly delivers a PC experiance unlike any legacy protocol available today. Unlike traditional server based computing display protocols, PC-Over-IP was designed from the ground up to deliver a PC like experiance delivering capabilities that have challenged legacy display protocols for over a decade.


By working together, VMware and Teradici can deliver an uncompressed remote desktop experience over existing standard local area networks as well as high-latency wide area networks, and provide both integrated software and hardware implementations of Teradici's PC-over-IP solution.


This joint effort will enable IT organizations to include a broader set of use cases with their current desktop efforts using a single solution.


In effort to provide continued support for customer choice and heterogenous VMware View based solution offerings, VMware View and VMware, will also continue to support and collaborate with partners that offer alternative display protocol solutions such as HP - RGS, Microsoft - RDP, Sun Microsystems - Sun Ray and Panologic.



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Sep 20, 2008 1:36 PM Reply John Troyer

Warren, I think this was one of the announcements that may have gotten lost in the VMworld tsunami. Is there any more information about this protocol or end-user experience out there? Googling gives some chatter from last year about their chipset + protocol solution, but this recent blog post on their site looks pretty impressive: http://www.teradici.com/blog/?p=20

Oct 2, 2008 9:13 AM Reply wponder in response to: John Troyer

We are in the early phases of what Teradici and VMware can do together. They are doing a great job of checking the boxes and truly providing a PC like experience over the network. Stay tuned as we hit the ground running there will be a LOT more details coming.

WP

Oct 22, 2008 6:11 PM Reply KS Hong

Is there a tentative timeline that this technology will be available in VM product (VDI in particular)?

Oct 25, 2008 1:06 AM Reply Massimo Re Ferre' in response to: wponder

Warren,

the Teradici protocol, as you suggest, is meant to provide a PC-like experience ... but as far as I know it's very heavy on bandwidth usage and it's very sensitive to network latency. So probably not the best alternative for not-so-well-connected remote users. Mind to comment?

I don't think there is an easy answer to this remote desktop problem..... a thin pipe allows you to get an OK experience .. a (very) fat pipe allows you to get a Great experience..... or did you happen to find the magic? :-)

Massimo.

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