FAQ — System Requirements for PCoIP Product and Components

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January 31, 2021

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Articles describes the PCoIP products available and provides links to the system requirements found in the more recent documentation for each component.

FAQ – Table of Contents

  1. What is PCoIP?
  2. Key features of PCoIP  .
  3. PCoIP products and components

Answers - Overview

1. What is PCoIP?

PCoIP is a remoting display protocol that streams a complete desktop or workload generated by on remote host (PCoIP Host) to a local client device (PCoIP Client) using a standard IP network.   

All data, files, are kept secured on the remote host and are not transferred to the PCoIP client.  The PCoIP client receives only pixals which are then displayed on the local monitor.  

2.  Key Features of the PCoIP Protocol

Key features of PCoIP Protocol include the following.

  • PCoIP technology uses advanced display compression to provide remote computing solutions such as remote physical workstations, GPU-enabled virtual workstations, or standard virtual desktops as a progressive alternative to a local deployment model.
  • It supports many of the devices available to physical machines, including keyboard, mouse, USB devices, tablets, multiple monitors, printers, audio devices, as well as custom options.
  • The PCoIP protocol ensures ultra-secure remote connectivity between a remote computer and a broad range of client devices including stateless PCoIP Zero Clients, PCoIP Software Clients and PCoIP Mobile Clients.
  • Display images are compressed and transmitted as a stream of encrypted pixels, ensuring corporate IP remains secured within the enterprise data center.
  • The PCoIP protocol, and PCoIP HP Anyware, offers unrivaled performance in terms of user interactivity, frame rate and image quality. PCoIP also features a 'build-to-lossless' capability which ensures lossless reproduction of the original display image at the PCoIP Client endpoint. Lossless reproduction is critical particularly in instances such as medical diagnostics, geospatial analysis, and media production, where the image itself contains important visual information.
  • PCoIP protocol uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) which is much better suited for streaming media and real time display situations than TCP-based alternatives, especially over high latency networks.

3. PCoIP Products and Components

PCoIP Components Description

 Description with links to system requirements

PCoIP Client 

Device used by the end user to access a remote desktop or remote workload from the PCoIP Host​​​​​​

PCoIP Host

The PCoIP agent streams the host workload/desktop to a PCoIP client using the PCoIP protocol. 
  • HP Anyware - Standard Agent uses the host CPU to stream the workload (Windows , Linux).
  • HP Anyware - Graphics Agent uses the host GPU to stream the workload (Windows, Linux)
  • Remote Workstation Card is a hardware card that uses a PCoIP chip to stream the workload (Windows, Linux)
  • Third parties such as Amazon Workspaces and VMWare Horizon also offer PCoIP comptable services.

PCoIP Connection Manager (CM)

Application that coordinates authentication of users prior to setting a PCoIP connection.
  • The Connection Manager is a linux application that coordinates the authentication and connection establishment process.  

 

 

 

 

  • The Security Gateway  is a linux application that is paired with the CM.  It is enabled when you would like to establish PCoIP sessions over a public, Wide Area Network. Using the SG, you do not need to deploy complex VPNs when using PCoIP over the public internet.

PCoIP Security Gateway (SG)

Application that provides security if your PCoIP client is on a Wide Area Network. 

PCoIP Connection Broker (Broker)

Application that provides rules and controls which clients can connect to which hosts.

  • Teradici offers a CAS Manager which provides broker functionality. It enables you to create deployments, connectors and remote workstations all within a single console and from a single interface.  To connect your environment to HP Anyware Manager, the HP Anyware Connector hub is used.  

  • 3rd party PCoIP brokers are also available from independent PCoIP Partners. 

  • To develop your own broker, refer to the Broker Overview and Broker Specifications.

PCoIP Management Console

Application that provides a management interface for Zero Clients and Remote Workstation Cards
  • The PCoIP Management Console is an Enterprise level management software appliance that allows ease of management of PCoIP endpoints through a single interface. With Management Console Enterprise, administrators can quickly and easily provision new devices, peer PCoIP Zero Clients with Remote Workstation Cards, report on inventory, review metrics, configure settings, and update firmware from a single console.  

PCoIP License Server

Application that ensures that only licensed products can establish a PCoIP connection.