Brian Madden speaks with James Lui, Director of Technical Services, Ericom and Stuart Robinson, Director of Business Development, Teradici at BriForum 2008 in Chicago.

To watch a live recording of Ericom’s connection broker demo of PowerTerm WebConnect supporting PC-over-IP protocol, go to http://media.brianmadden.com/briforumplayer/bfplayerdynamic.asp?id=420.

PC-over-IP Desktop Virtualization Demonstration

May 5-8, 2008

This past week Teradici teamed up with Amulet Hotkey and Ericom Software to demonstrate Teradici’s PC-over-IP technology and some recent developments in the area of virtualized desktops and WAN optimizations.

• Desktop Virtualization using PC-over-IP (in a hypervisor environment)
• Quad display trader station
• Recent PC-over-IP WAN optimizations

The demonstrations also included trader desk products from Amulet Hotkey and Ericom’s connection manager.

Highlights:

• Shows multiple users per host PC using an open-source Xen hypervisor
• Supports any media type (Microsoft, Google, Flash etc)
• Supports all USB peripherals including isochronous webcam and printer/copier/scanner shown above (using the standard drivers that came with the appliances – no special host drivers, no extra software fees and no drivers on desktop portal)

Setup:

• Multiple virtual desktops driven from a single host PC including Microsoft Vista, and XP instances
• Host PC – Intel Core2 Quad w/ VT-d virtualization
• Hypervisor – open-source Xen v3.2
• PC-over-IP – TERA Host PCIe cards
• Desktop – DevonIT TC-10 PC-over-IP Desktop Portal

1) Quad Display PC-over-IP Trader Workstation – bottom four displays

• 4 displays driven via PC-over-IP to a host workstation (Dell XPS machine)
• Amulet’s prototype quad display PC-over-IP portal based on Teradici devices
• Amulet K4vu – intelligent KVM switch supporting 4 different host PCs
• Amulet – AHK3000 trader keyboard

Application Content: Live Reuters market data, Windows WMV HD video, AMD-NVIDIA 3D DirectX visualizer, 3D CAD, high resolution medical images, PowerPoint, etc.

2) PC-over-IP Technology Showing Recent WAN Optimizations - top left display

• Desktop PC-over-IP portal
• Host – ASUS gaming laptop with PC-over-IP host card
• Connected through network impairment router to add delay 0ms up to 300ms. This corresponds to about 12,000 km separation between the PC-over-IP host and PC-over-IP portal (across North America, N.A to Europe, N.A to Asia).
• Network speeds from 3Mbps up to 120Mbps

3) Reuters Display – top middle left

• Reuters account showing market information (directly driven from PC)

4) Presentation PC (directly driven by PC) – top middle right display
5) Network impairment System Display – top right display

• Provides the ability to add network delay from 0ms to 300ms between the Top

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Ericom Connection Broker Demo

• 2x Dual display PC-over-IP desktop portals (driven by host PCs – Dell XPS)
• 1x Management server (includes Server2003 and Ericom’s connection broker)
• Ericom’s PowerTerm WebConnect product is used for centrally managed access to Teradici-based PC-over-IP Desktop Portals
• ActiveDirectory/LDAP integration
• Connectionbroker with flexible connection capability,
  • Fixed seating
  • Free seating
  • Pooled hosts
  • Fail-over (supports PC-over-IP and RDP for remote access and disaster recovery access)
  • Desktop Virtualization (VDI), Presentation Virtualization (Terminal Services)

Teradici’s booth showing PC-over-IP technology demonstration systems. The demo systems included a single Vista workstation and a dual display CATIA workstation showing CAD models, a SpaceExplorer 3D mouse, HD videos, webcam, etc.

PC-over-IP powered IBM HC10 Workstation Blade & CP20 Desktop Portal – Industry’s first workstation blade to achieve CATIA certification.

Teradici presents at COE Vendor Solutions Theater on Tuesday, April 29 at 10:50 a.m.

Industry First CATIA Certified Workstation Blade

IBM HC10 Workstation Blade and BladeCenter S Chassis

Team Teradici at COE 2008 PLM Conference & TechniFair

Buena Vista, FL – Teradici today at COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair will showcase a dual-display remote workstation running CATIA, industry’s leading solution for product design excellence (http://www.3ds.com/products/catia/). COE is an international, professional organization uniting and supporting the users of Dassault Systemes software such as CATIA. COE has over 80,000 users in 400 member companies that represent 11 industries.

Teradici will present at the COE TechniFair Vendor Solutions Theater on Tuesday, April 29th at 10:50am. Title: Delivering a Rich Workstation Experience to Your Desktop Using PC-over-IP® Technology.

Teradici’s PC-over-IP technology delivers breakthrough innovation in computer display compression to deliver a true workstation experience over standard IP networks. PC-over-IP technology delivers key advantages over other consolidation techniques for design engineering workstations including:

Stay tuned for additional pictures and show updates.