

To read more about the benefits of PCoIP and UDP for remote display protocols, see Scott Davis’s post on Why PCoIP is Ideal for Remote Virtual Desktops. PCoIP is an advanced remote desktop protocol and makes more efficient use of the network by encapsulating video display packets in UDP instead of TCP.

In View 4.5 and earlier, Security Server supports the secure tunnelling of TCP based protocols (such as RDP, USB redirection etc.). It also ensures that the user can only access desktop resources they are authorized to access. It ensures that the only remote desktop traffic that can enter the corporate data center is traffic on behalf of a strongly authenticated user. When accessing desktops from the Internet, such as by the home or mobile worker, Security Server provides the required level of security and connectivity. View Security Server is a component of View that is typically deployed in a DMZ to support remote access to virtual desktops. Mark Benson - View Architect - VMware End User Computing CTO Office
