This looks like an interesting paper: http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/adeac2006_fordist.pdf On 6/7/08 12:26 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rick, > > I haven¹t 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? > > > > > Steve Greenberg > > Thin Client Computing > > 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 > > Scottsdale, AZ 85266 > > (602) 432-8649 > > www.thinclient.net <www.thinclient.net> > > steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Rick Mack > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:21 AM > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > >