Re: RDP Compression
Hi,
I would recommend you contact riverbed and ask them if
they *actually* claim to optimize RDP applications at a
deep level. For regular business apps RDP is already
highly optimized with intelligent caching and compression.
As you most likely already know, RDP benefits from any
device that smooths out the traffic flow, reduces latency,
gives priority to RDP traffic, guarantees minimum bandwidth
for each session, etc.
There are opportunities to optimize RDP traffic if they wanted
to. For example, in a case where large files are transferred
over RDP, or video/audio streaming, they could cache this on
their device and thus avoid transferring more than once.
Another potential would be to cache bitmaps so that these
would only be transferred over the WAN once, but then it
would need to take over the job of generating bitmap
hashes and instructing each client which cache cell to store it in.
Doing the above is complex and would require substantial
investment. They would need to license the protocol, program
their hardware to decrypt/decompress/compress/encrypt (unless
they developed a software piece that ran on the TS) the
stream, examine the traffic for file transfers, video playback,
bitmaps, etc. And if they accomplished the above the
product would likely only benefit a small subset of TS installs
which may or may not be enough to justify development costs.
If they have done even a portion of the optimizing techniques
for RDP I describe above I am certain they would be more than
happy to tell you about and rightly so.
-TP
Julio wrote:
> Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We
> are currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0
>
> Thanks.
>
> J