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 10 times faster than RDP:
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 up to 10 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 Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016 Terminal Services / RDS (physical or virtual). Both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) are supported. |
Client Platforms |
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) are supported. |
| Thin Clients | Windows XPe |
| Network Types | DSL, E1, T1, T3, WAN, LAN, WiFi, wireless WAN/LAN, and others |
| Connection Brokers | Ericom Connect® functionality included in: Works also as standalone for RDS, TS and VDI (without a Connection Broker).
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| Server | XP, Vista, Windows 7 | Windows 2000, Linux, Mac, and *CE clients |
| 2008 R2, Windows 7 |
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. |
Up to 10x 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. |
| 2003, 2008, XP, Vista |
Up to 10x acceleration | Up to 10x 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. |