Ihsan Dogan wrote:
Am 26.10.2009 19:28 Uhr, Wouter Coppens schrieb:
Last week, we had a demo of the upcoming VMware View. One of the most
interesting features is the PCoIP (PC over IP) protocol.
It’s a protocol especially designed for multimedia and works over low
bandwidth and high latency networks.
PCoIP is interesting. It is based on Teradici technology.
However Teradici implemented this in hardware:
PC -> Graphics card -> Video output -> Teradici Card (convert raw video
input to network stream) -> over network -> Teradici chip in thin client
-> Video output on the Thin client.
VMware worked with Teradici to convert the server/PC side hardware card
to a "software" implementation.
The question is: what is doing the processing for the "software"
implementation?
Is this the CPU or the GPU on the server or do you still need Teradici
hardware in your server to make this work?
Maybe you have heard some things about this during the presentation?
The Sun Ray 4.2 software solves the multimedia problem differently:
It redirects Flash 9, MP4 and WMV content directly to the Sun Ray.
This means no extra load on the server when playing these type of files.
In my opinion the Sun Ray solution would be able to scale better at this
time.
However the VMware solution is more low level and thus independent of
the played multimedia content.
I think this is a good thing if you have enough central processing
available to support this.
In an earlier message I mentioned OTOY and AMD showing the Llano CPU+GPU
chip.
These chips might be capable of providing the heavy processing required
to support VMwares large scale "software" implementation of Teradici.
As for the economical side of this development:
VMware is a big player in desktop virtualisation. If they licensed
Teradici products for their server solutions it would be hard for Sun to
ignore this since there are already Wyse and other Thin clients which
are shipping with Teradici decoding hardware onboard. So hopefully this
competition will inspire Sun / Oracle to increase their efforts in
multimedia support for the Sun Rays.
There are a certain things that users want to have with a thin client,
but most of the people here on this list don't talk about it:
- The end user wants to sync his smartphone over USB
Nobody wants to sync smartphones over USB.
Why do you want mobile users to come to the office to hook up their
smartphone?
Use SyncML instead to synchronize over gprs/umts. This will keep your
mobile users mobile. There are several products available like
Synchronica, etc.
Ivar
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