Therefore, initial testing was carried out using some form of WAN simulator software, which the customer had purchased in advance. Testing had been carried out previously with another protocol and delivered very good video (to my eyes) at 384Kbps, which I was impressed with to say the least.Īt the time, WAN testing with real users was still being lined up and had been delayed, therefore results from real world conditions are still pending. In addition, there was a requirement to identify the ‘lowest point’ that could deliver video playback with ‘acceptable’ performance. This doesn’t mean smooth, perfect or flawless playback, just acceptable enough to the end user, with a consistent experience which is essential. This provides additional benefits such as reduced latency and having access to those devices across the WAN from the service provider. Using the MPLS, at least the PCoIP protocol doesn’t have to traverse the internet and go through numerous additional hops. No further information regarding expected concurrent users or current link utilisation was available during this short engagement. The customer was preparing to test PCoIP from the following locations connected by MPLS:. Endpoints devices were a mix of new Dell Wyse Thin Clients.
As expected, PCoIP was being evaluated against other protocols, using RDS Sessions (2008 R2), rather than full Windows 7/8 desktops. Also, as best we try to reason with the customer and set out reasonable expectations with these constraints in mind, there’s always the demand for the technology to do more. Typically, whilst this is an excellent use case for PCoIP, the customer requirements and constraints were going to test PCoIP capabilities to the full. This post provides a summary of my findings including tools, tweaks, tips and resources I used.
The pcoip protocol supports a maximum of driver#
Back in February, I was engaged for a couple of days, to help a customer pilot the PCoIP protocol using Horizon with View 6, with the primary driver to deliver multimedia and video across WAN links.