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Great user experiences are crucial to the success of remote access solutions. IT departments strive to provide great (or even acceptable) remote computing experiences that closely match local PC-like experience. Today's RDP (the de facto standard for remote access) does not meet this performance level. As productivity decreases and frustration levels rise, remote users often experience sluggish response times, screen updates and displays that are painfully slow; images rendered in chunks; videos and animations that have a low frame rate.
Ericom Blaze transforms RDP into a fast, responsive, and extremely efficient remote display protocol that dramatically reduces bandwidth consumption and optimizes RDP network traffic across the WAN/LAN and slow bandwidth connections. With these dramatic and productivity-enhancing improvements to the end-user experience, Ericom Blaze enables the reality of deploying and scaling desktop virtualization (VDI), Terminal Services and thin client computing to remote / mobile users, branch offices and clouds – quickly and cost-effectively.
Blaze performs three key operations to compress RDP by up to 98% and to transmit data up to 25 times faster than RDP:
- Blaze intelligently introspects the RDP protocol and compresses display data by 20 times and more. In addition, Blaze performs enhanced bulk compression on all the data transmitted via RDP.
- Blaze performs packet shaping to optimize RDP communication over high-latency / low-bandwidth connections.
- Standard RDP breaks screen frames into multiple small chunks that are rendered individually on the local display. Blaze unifies these chunks and displays complete screen frames as single units, resulting in a much smoother and more pleasant end-user experience.
Ericom Blaze is a robust display protocol that exceeds the performance of the latest versions of RDP including RDP 7, across a latent / low bandwidth connection, or for complex graphics or animation displays. Ericom Blaze is available both as a standalone product as well as an integral part of PowerTerm WebConnect 5.7 and higher.
The actual amount of speed increase you can get from using Ericom Blaze is highly dependent on a few factors. In general, the more graphics, the better the performance gains over RDP. If the document is graphics based (bitmaps, charts, etc.), and used over a slow connection, you can see 10-25 times better performance over RDP. If your document is primarily text based, you can see 2-5 times better performance over RDP. Remember that the bandwidth and latency of the network will also be a factor in the performance.
This chart details speed expectations, based on your operating system.
Ericom Blaze performs particularly well in scenarios where RDP performance normally degrades the user experience, such as over low-bandwidth, high latency WANs, or congested LANs. Some of the most common use cases include remote office and branch computing, mobile / home-based workers, outsourced / offshore workforces, and cloud-hosted virtual desktops and applications.
| Server Platforms |
Windows 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 Terminal Services (physical or virtual). Both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) are supported.
Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 as remote desktops (physical or virtual). Both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) are supported.
Server must have CPU with SSE2 instruction set support. |
| Client Platforms |
Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) are supported.
Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Novell SUSE, etc).
Mac OS X (Intel) support will be available in June 2012. A BETA version is available now from the Ericom Blaze download page.
Note: The above clients must have CPU with MMX instruction set support.
Apple iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) - Search Ericom in the App Store
Android tablets and phones - Search Ericom in Google Play App Store |
| Thin Clients |
Windows XPe
Linux
Windows CE support will be available in March 2012. A BETA version is available now from the Ericom Blaze download page.
Thin clients must have CPU with MMX instruction set support. |
| Network Types |
DSL, E1, T1, T3, WAN, LAN, WiFi, wireless WAN/LAN, and others |
| Connection Brokers |
VMware® View functionality included in:
- Ericom Blaze 2.2 client for Windows
- Ericom Blaze 1.4.8 client for Mac
- Ericom Blaze 1.4.8 client for Linux
- Ericom Blaze 2.1 client for CE
Ericom® PowerTerm® WebConnect (for TS and VDI).
Can also work as standalone (without TS or VDI Connection Broker).
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XP, Vista, Windows 7 |
Windows 2000, Linux, Mac, and *CE clients |
2008 R2,
Windows 7
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Up to 5x acceleration.
Note: When connecting from Windows to 2008 R2 / Win 7, Ericom Blaze works best when accelerating graphics applications rather than text-based applications.
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Up to 25x acceleration
*With CE thin clients, the faster your CPU is, the better Blaze will perform. When CPU speed is < 1 GHz, Ericom Blaze delivers less noticeable results.
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2003,
2008,
XP,
Vista
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Up to 25x acceleration |
Up to 25x acceleration
*With CE thin clients, the faster your CPU is, the better Blaze will perform. When CPU speed is < 1 GHz, Ericom Blaze delivers less noticeable results.
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