Dell Wyse virtualization software

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1 Wyse Dell Wyse virtualization software Delivering the best user experience on a cloud client computing platform Best user experience. All you need to know, here:

2 Meet Dell Wyse cloud client computing virtualization software The Dell Wyse cloud client computing virtualization software range Created to enable the very best user experience across a range of virtualized environments, rich multimedia interaction and support for everyday desktop peripherals...made simple and easy. Dell Wyse TCX Suite Dell Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator Dell Wyse PC Extender Dell Wyse TCX Dell Wyse VDA Dell Wyse PC Extender Dell Wyse TCX is our virtualization enhancement software suite which enriches the user experience. Dell Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator enables productive business continuity for remote users by accelerating remote desktop protocols. Dell Wyse PC Extender allows you to extend the useful life of existing PC platforms by turning them into secure thin clients. Take a tour of the Dell Wyse software range Start Range Technical

3 Introducing Dell Wyse TCX Suite Best user experience Delivering the best user experience available on a cloud client computing platform Offering customers the full benefits of cloud client computing while negating any limitations is the innovative thinking behind the Dell Wyse TCX Software Suite. Each software solution in the suite delivers an enhancement component designed to work seamlessly within Microsoft Remote Desktop, Microsoft Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View environments. Collaborative Processing Architecture Uniquely all Dell Wyse TCX Solutions feature Collaborative Processing Architecture (CPA) which intelligently divides the workload between the server and client, reducing the need for larger servers, and delivering the best cloud client computing user experience available. Dell Wyse TCX software works with established protocols (instead of replacing them), adds valuable functionality and importantly shifts processing workload to the thin client s processor whenever it s appropriate. Multi-display USB Virtualizer Multimedia Rich sound Flash redirection

4 Dell Wyse TCX multi-display Extra screen real-estate for virtual desktop environments Multiple monitor awareness Dell Wyse TCX Multi-display virtualization software makes virtual desktops and applications multi-monitor aware. Multiple monitor awareness with increased productivity and user satisfaction Instead of trying to consolidate everything in one monitor that could limit users to many minimized or resized windows, Dell Wyse users can now easily open windows and applications side by side on up to four monitors and leverage the extra screen real estate. Users have total control over dialog box and message box positioning. They can recall and reopen applications at positions where they were previously closed. In addition users can also configure exclusion lists for applications to apply or not apply the multi-display settings. This helps increase an end user s workflow productivity and satisfaction. Dell Wyse TCX Multi-display adds virtual channel support to enable logon GINA and Windows Security dialog box positionings on some platforms. TCX Multi-display also supports seamless or remote applications.

5 Dell Wyse TCX Multimedia Dell Wyse brings multimedia to cloud client computing Rich multimedia support Dell Wyse TCX Multimedia is a software solution that streamlines the delivery of multimedia content to the local client for a richer user experience. Multimedia, as a training mechanism or for corporate communications, is becoming more prevalent. Traditionally, multimedia playback had a number of limitations in cloud client computing environments. TCX Multimedia is a breakthrough technology that removes these limitations. It s a software layer featuring both server and client components that work intelligently to redirect multimedia processing tasks dynamically between the client and server. The multimedia stream is decoded locally on the thin client using the local processing power of the device thereby providing a full synchronised audio and video experience. Dell Wyse s unique Collaborative Processing Architecture (CPA) frees-up the processing power on the server and increases infrastructure scalability. The software is agnostic to the virtualization infrastructure already in place in the data center. It also provides for full redirection of web-based Windows media file videos, with the ability to run multiple multimedia files over multiple displays, simultaneously. Enhances user experience and server scalability Deploying rich media rich applications using TCX Multimedia delivers a superior user experience with significantly less demands on server processing and bandwidth. At a glance features: User experience Rich and smooth full screen, full frame-rate multimedia experience. Multimedia content is intelligently decoded locally on the thin client. Transparent real-time compression rate adjustment. URL redirection and multicast support for certain codec types. End-user experience comparable to or better than a regular PC. Can play multiple Windows media content across multiple displays simultaneously. Typical server CPU and network activity when playing multimedia* Server CPU and network activity when deployed with Dell Wyse TCX Multimedia* * Source: Wyse Whitepaper, 2008 Server CPU and network utilization playing WMV file on a Virtual Desktop.

6 Dell Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer Connect your everyday USB devices Visible to virtual desktops and applications Simple and revolutionary, Dell Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer software makes thin client attached USB devices visible to virtual desktops and applications. Solves USB peripheral connectivity issues Dell Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer is a software solution that enables the discovery of local USB devices plugged into Dell Wyse thin clients directly into a virtual desktop environment. This extraordinary enhancement solves the USB peripheral issues when it comes to deploying thin clients. No more compromises on limited local device drivers. Supported devices include an unprecedented broad range of USB-based printers, scanners, storage devices, BlackBerry, Pocket PC handhelds, webcams and headsets. TCX USB Virtualizer redirects the USB drivers installed in the virtual desktop to the Dell Wyse thin clients and functions as an intelligent virtual USB driver bridge traversing the network. In addition to device-level redirection, it also offers interface-level redirection for composite interface type all in one peripherals like combination printer/scanner/fax devices. Session-level restriction allows users to see USB devices assigned just to them even in a shared server-based computing environment like Microsoft Terminal Services, also known as Microsoft RDSH and Citrix XenApp. At a glance features: User experience Supports asynchronous devices such as USB-based printers, scanners and PDAs. Supports isochronous devices (Microsoft and Logitech webcams and headsets), for video based instant messaging applications. Enables visibility of local USB devices plugged into Dell Wyse thin clients to virtual desktops. Enables visibility and administrator control of local composite USB devices like all-in-one print.fax.scanner devices. Includes administrator visibility and management of each separate function (e.g., enable printer only, disable fax, allow scanning for specific users, etc.). Plug and play detection intelligently detects and identifies devices as soon as they are plugged into the thin client. Management Tuned TCP/IP stack with optimized data echoing that helps minimize the negative effects of network latency and bandwidth. Control panel provides management control over which devices will work and which are blocked. Granular control of devices at class, sub-class,

7 Dell Wyse TCX Flash redirection and acceleration Experience improved Flash video performance Experience improved Flash video performance Flash redirection enables Dell Wyse thin client users to experience improved Flash video content performance in a remote computing environment without requiring a client-side Flash player. TCX Flash redirection allows web-based Flash video content to be fetched directly by the Dell Wyse thin client from the source where it is played locally. By playing the Flash content locally on the thin client, users get outstanding video performance while the VDI host system runs more efficiently. High quality audio with rich sound When used with TCX rich sound, Flash Acceleration also provides high quality audio performance for Flash videos. At a glance features: User experience Supports asynchronous devices such as USB-based printers, scanners and PDAs. Supports Microsoft Remote Desktop, Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View. Eliminates the need for flash player on the client device. Supports Internet Explorer 8 & 9 along with Firefox version 12 and above. Leverages the proven multimedia redirection and rich sound technologies. Administrators can fine tune network usage and user experience by controlling the frame rate and compression. Can play multiple Flash videos across multiple displays, simultaneously.

8 Dell Wyse TCX rich sound High-quality audio without compromise Receive and transmit high quality audio Dell Wyse TCX rich sound virtualization software enables the zero-compromise deployment of virtual desktops and applications with the capability of receiving and transmitting high quality audio. Broaden the reach of virtual desktops and applications Dell Wyse TCX Rich Sound provides bi-directional audio capabilities for virtual desktops and applications. Users can now use a USB headset directly attached to the Dell Wyse thin client to input and output audio to and from IP soft phone applications such as Cisco IP Communicator, Avaya Softphone and Elluminate running in a Microsoft Windows virtual desktop. This revolutionary technology from Dell Wyse also supports sound recording and playback applications. At a glance features: User experience Provides high performance bi-directional audio in VDI environments VDI users can now run applications that require audio input capabilities. Eliminates the need for a separate hardware IP phone unit. No compromise cloud client computing experience. Management Coupled with USB Virtualizer, audio-video chat applications such as Skype can be supported in a VDI environment. VOIP softphone applications with USB headsets or handsets. Digital dictation in legal offices. Voice recognition applications. Language Labs in schools.

9 Introducing Dell Wyse VDA Dell Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator A software only solution for Dell Wyse thin clients and supported PCs Dell Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA) is a technology that accelerates Microsoft RDP and Citrix ICA protocols by up to 3 times on networks with 40ms latency or higher and at least 768kbps total downstream bandwidth. VDA neutralizes the effects of network delays (latency) and packet loss for cloud client computing protocols. It achieves this using a combination of network tunneling, proxies, and packet correction technologies. Addressing the issues of network latency Dell Wyse VDA means organizations can now deploy cloud client computing to more remote users while minimizing additional network costs, and avoiding the need for regional datacenters and the energy to run them. Organizations that have already deployed cloud client computing using regional datacenters will be able to achieve significant cost-savings through datacenter consolidation. Dell Wyse VDA enables virtualized desktop environments to be deployed to areas where network latency has, to date, presented operational barriers. Now, with VDA, more users can receive the full benefits of Dell Wyse cloud client computing with the best PC experience over virtualized desktops. Special features: Enhancing ICA and RDP protocols Software-only acceleration of virtual desktops and applications Accelerates Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP protocols Works on high bandwidth wide area networks (FLP Fat Long Pipes) Accelerates connections to Microsoft Remote Desktop, Microsoft Terminal Server, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, and VMware View. Enhances Dell Wyse TCX software suite functionality across wide-area networks Enhances Dell Wyse Collaborative Processing Architecture performance Enables per connection maximum bandwidth usage control Leverages built-in security of underlying protocols (e.g. 128-bit encryption for RDP and ICA) Works seamlessly with current hardware accelerator products High Subjective end user experience With Dell Wyse Without Dell Wyse Latency (ms)

10 Secure, reliable computing Now more users can experience secure, reliable computing Spreading the benefits of cloud client computing to more users, than ever before Virtually everywhere that s been a challenge to deploying cloud client computing......can be transformed with Dell Wyse VDA. Remote and branch offices can now avoid investment in local datacenters and servers by switching to fast access to secure, robust and centralized datacenters. Mobile workers and their departments can eliminate the security and management issues they ve experienced with PC laptops. Home workers will experience a better computing experience over their often slower domestic broadband service making flexible working more practical, secure and significantly reducing HQ costs. Offshore workers can now be served with cloud client computing that s fast, efficient and ensures that all data and intellectual property rights remain securely at the centralized datacenter. Cloud computing application and desktop users will gain a superior experience with VDA, making this already cost effective method of delivering a flexible IT infrastructure even more practical. Robust disaster recovery contingencies are simpler to implement with faster networks serving data from centralized and alternate backup datacenters. VDA makes this viable, manageable and cost effective over latent networks. At a glance features: Opens up the benefits of cloud client computing to more users than ever before Works with mobile, home, off-shore and cloud computing users Enables organizations to implement global disaster recovery contingencies

11 Delivering the best user experience Enhancing ICA and RDP protocols RDP performance improvement with Dell Wyse VDA Time (sec) RDP Comparison RDP RDP with Dell Wyse VDA This test shows improvement in response times when viewing a dynamic stock ticker on marketrac.nyse.com using a 1.54Mbps network bandwidth with 1% packet loss and 10% jitter. ICA performance improvement with Dell Wyse VDA This test shows improvement in response times when copying a 2.32MB file from a USB drive to a server session using a 1.54Mbps network bandwidth with 1% packet loss and 10% jitter. Time (sec) 75mSec 300mSec 1000mSec Network latency (msec) ICA Comparison ICA ICA with Dell Wyse VDA 75mSec 300mSec 1000mSec Network latency (msec)

12 Introducing Dell Wyse PC Extender Dell Wyse PC Extender is software designed to enable enterprises to easily re-purpose and convert legacy PC assets into thin client hosts For many organizations, investing in, managing and supporting a business PC network infrastructure has become unsustainable. And it s this existing investment in thousands of PCs that in the long term prevents a move to more affordable cost-effective thin clients and an easier to manage virtualized computing environment. PC Extender resolves this issue by extending the life of legacy PC capital assets as reconfigured and fully-optimized thin clients, which in turn, also eliminates expensive support and management costs. With PC Extender, organizations can now access the benefits of a secure, cost effective virtualized computing environment today, with a seamless PC-to-thin client transition strategy in place for tomorrow. Consistent, dependable and secure desktops PC Extender delivers a dependable, secure and consistent user experience across a diverse range of hardware. It s easy to deploy and maintain too - without the need for management software, and thousands of devices can be centrally configured and securely updated without any manual interaction. If however, a more hands-on approach to management is required, such as asset tracking or reporting then Dell Wyse Device Manager software is ideally suited. Enterprise-quality device and data security is assured, as PC Extender is built from the very same software found in Dell Wyse thin clients. It features a read-only file system, device lock-down and VPN support to help protect against data theft and/or loss. At a glance features: Solution features Based on Dell Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux v11.1 Automatic Central Configuration (text-based INI s) Flexibility managed via add-ons Secure, read-only file system with lockdown abilities Dell Wyse RDP client (based on MS RDP SDK 7.1) Citrix Receiver client VMware View client Web-based applications (Firefox, Flash, JAVA,etc) SSH Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, IPSEC VPN Support (add-ons available) Local/Remote printing support Flexible multi-protocol support Dell Wyse PC Extender supports a wide range of protocols and infrastructures from Microsoft, Citrix and VMware as well as web-based applications, allowing you to support a variety of connections on a convenient single platform.

13 Technical Dell Wyse virtualization software range Want to learn more? Simply click the relevant icon. Dell Wyse supported Server OS and TCX component details Dell Wyse TCX supported client platforms Dell Wyse TCX Multimedia Dell Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer Dell Wyse PC Extender Dell Wyse TCX Dell Wyse TCX client Dell Wyse PC Extender Visit

14 Specifications Dell Wyse TCX Suite Supported Server OS and TCX component details Server OS TCX Flash Acceleration TCX Multi-display TCX Multimedia TCX Rich Sound TCX USB Virtualizer XP Pro SP 3 or later Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (32-bit) 1 XP Pro SP 3 or later Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (64-bit) 1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit) Terminal Services 2 Windows Server 2003 SP 2 (64-bit) Terminal Services 2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Windows Server 2008 Yes* Yes** Yes N/A Yes R1 (32-bit) 3 Windows Server 2008 Yes* Yes** Yes N/A Yes R2 (64-bit) 3 Windows 7 (32-bit) (Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional) 3 Windows 7 (64-bit) (Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional) 3 Yes* Yes** Yes N/A Yes Yes* Yes** Yes N/A Yes * Uses Native RDP/ICA Audio Driver. ** Must install MDS using the Custom Installation. 1 Windows Remote Desktop Connection must be enabled. 2 Windows Terminal Services must be installed and enabled. 3 Windows Remote Desktop Connection must be enabled.

15 Specifications Dell Wyse TCX Suite TCX Flash support details for Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Server OS Client with WES2009 OS Client with WES7 OS Client with ThinOS OS XP Pro SP 3 or later (X86 & X64) Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later (X86 & X64) Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration Windows Server 2008 R2 Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration Windows 7 (X86 & X64) (Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional) Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration and Flash redirection Flash acceleration TCX USB support details for session level restriction and interface level redirection TCX USB Functionality Client with WES2009 OS Client with WES7 OS Client with ThinOS OS TCX USB device redirection of USB 1.1, USB 2.0, and USB 3.0 devices TCX USB session level restriction (only in Terminal Server environment) of USB 1.1, USB 2.0, and USB 3.0 devices Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported TCX USB interface level redirection Supported Supported Not supported

16 Specifications Dell Wyse TCX Multimedia Media formats supported Flexible playback modes supported MPEG-1, MPEG-2 MPEG-4-part2 MPEG-4-part2 v2 H.264/MP4 part 10 WMV 7/8/9 WMA MP3 Local clip playback Play-list playback Web playback Supported media Support for Microsoft Media player 9/10/11 players Redirect to local media Multicast support Client playback directly using - HTTP URL - FTP URL - Network shared drive UDP/RTP Multicast (MPEG1 only) for Live multimedia streams Multicast for Windows Media streams

17 Specifications Dell Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer Tested USB peripheral Biometrics Digital Persona U.are.U 4000B Reader Blackberry CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Flash Drive Hard Drives 8700H Iomega CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive Sandisk 4 GB Sandisk Non-Secure Sandisk Secure Cruzer Enterprise Transcend 4 GB Transcend 8 GB USB 3.0 ADATA CH11 500GB USB 3.0 Hard Drive Seagate Backup Plus 500GB USB 3.0 Hard Drive Western Digital Elements 500GB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Headset Logitech Headset A Logitech Analog Headset HID Devices Mass Storage USB to Parallel er Topaz T-L462-HSB-R Sony Floppy Drive Epson LX-300+ Webcam Logitech Webcam Pro 9000

18 Specifications Dell Wyse PC Extender Minimum hardware requirements Management Enterprise PC running Windows XP (32-bit) 1 GHz Processor, 512 MB free hard drive space (NTFS formatted drive) and 512 MB RAM. Typical enterprise PCs include: - Dell Optiplex GX170 - Dell Optiplex GX270 - Dell Optiplex GX280 Dell Wyse Device Manager (WDM) compatible when easy hands-on management and asset-tracking is required: Automatic configuration and upgrading without the need for device management software available via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. - Terminal configuration (IP information, name, etc.) - Remote screen shadowing of entire desktop (VNC) - Asset management and reporting

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