[THIN] Re: Pano VDI Solution

I don't care what VMWare marketing spin says, EMC is against anything that isn't ESX  or VDI.

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Douglas Brown <dbrown@dabcc.com> wrote:

Steve,

Great question.  I want to learn more myself.  Everything I read about it is good.  The big problem I've been told about it is that the big boy (Microsoft, Vmware, Citrix) don't want anything to do with it and that because of this it will not get the buyoff it needs to more of a standarized remoting protocol.   I would be interested to know what you guys this of this too?  Again, this is what I'm told and I can think of a few reasons Microsoft and Citrix would not like it but I don't know why Vmware would be against it.   

Thanks.  This is a great topic....  A beefy remoting protocol is really needed...

On 6/7/08 12:26 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@thinclient.net> wrote:

Rick,
 
I haven't found any more detail information about Net2Display, do you have any links that might show an implementation or at least the planned feature set and performance characteristics?
 



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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Rick Mack
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:21 AM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: Pano VDI Solution


Hi Jim,



Panologic and also Teradici have a hardware remoting protocol that has completely transparent hardware (graphics, keyboard/mouse, USB etc) "redirection". This means that multimedia performance and just about everything else will be as good as on a PC, at least for LAN-based thin clients. The good news for hardware manufacturers is that the "back-end" systems are blade PCs.



The largest single drawback with a Panalogic/Teradici type solution is the hardware support required at both ends, and the fact that the protocol is proprietary.



Remote/WAN access is still going to be a problem with stuff like latency etc but that may very well be handled by the new VESA Net2Display protocol which will handle LAN clients as well. If Net2Display takes off, the relevance of RDP and ICA could become questionable. Since Teradici are heavily involved with Net2Display, it's probably a good guess that they will soon have Net2Display support in their hardware. That makes it non-proprietary and may well point to the future of thin clients.



regards,



Rick