Inner Workings of VMware PC-over-IP
VMware View 4 includes PC-over-IP functionality. PC-over-IP is a display protocol licensed from Teradici. There are 2 types of PC-over-IP - hardware and software. VMware View 4 includes the software version. Some details of the inner workings of the software version of PC-over-IP are explained in a recent article by Eric Siebert.
VMware’s software implementation of PCoIP uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) over port 50002. The TCP port is used for session establishment and control and the UDP port is used for optimal performance of media and streaming content. All traffic between the host server and remote user is encrypted with 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard encryption. One of the biggest challenges with remote desktops is dealing with remote users that have low bandwidth and/or high latency network connections; PCoIP handles these types of situations very well and still delivers a decent remote desktop experience to a user.
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