While we complete preparations for our Citrix Summit partner conference in Las Vegas, and a number of new announcements for early 2016, I started again to reflect on just how much has been achieved in the previous year, to the increasingly sophisticated needs of XenApp / XenDesktop and Citrix Workspace cloud customers.
HDX team has to accomplish the task, is a "high definition" offer in-session user experience, such as local feel or better.
on some of the major advances in HDX Let's take a look back, which were published in 2015 in order to achieve this goal, big on the following focus 'needle-movers':
- Thin Wire extensions
- Framehawk
- HDX templates
- HDX realTime Optimization Pack
- Citrix receiver extensions
- HDX SoC Thin clients
- Linux VDA with the latest Thin wire technologies
Thin Wire
If XenApp customers running Windows Server 08 [R2] or one of its predecessors, it benefits from very efficient HDX Thin Wire display remote techniques that Microsoft technology is no longer used in Windows Server 2012 [R2]. While ThinWire supported even older Windows systems for customers extended support for Microsoft is working, it has developed to support the newer graphics technologies from Windows Server 2012 and uses beyond.
The first step in 2013 with XenDesktop came back 7.0, which made our adaptive H.264 encoder in the standard VDA and in all product versions (so far only with HDX 3D Pro included).
But what XenApp 6.5 migrate customers to XenApp 7.6? Many companies. In our installed base is not very demanding requirements for 3D graphics or server-rendered video Would it be possible for them to move to Windows Server 2012 [R2] without updating their power cables or even older thin clients to support the H.264 video codec?
One of the most impressive HDX achievements of 2015 was improved Thin Wire in XenApp / XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 3. Our engineers were amazing bandwidth to achieve sufficiency and server scalability, without requiring changes to receiver or minimal endpoint processor specifications ( although Windows Server 2012 even more CPU than Windows Server 08 require). Providing a positive user experience cost effective a tremendous achievement and the feedback from the community was thrilled:
"a must-" Smashing good quality / performance. " have no doubt. "
"Verily the most amazing product improvement I've seen in years."
Framehawk
one meets demanding applications where our industry-leading technology Thin Wire did not deliver the quality of experience that was needed? HDX with Framehawk, was introduced in June with XenApp / XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 2 has proven ideal for:
- Mobile employees on wireless broadband
- Offshore workers who need like local interactivity
more and more organizations have a segment of the population users are mobile and very dependent on Wi-Fi or 4G / LTE. Spectral interference is unavoidable bane of wireless connectivity, usually making it very difficult to work productively with hosted applications. But Framehawk delivers rapid click reaction and consistent cadence even under conditions of high packet loss.
for offshore workers who like local interactivity need to be fully productive, whether they are customers in a call center handling or working with large 3D models, overcomes Framehawk network latency with its patented gear system and time-based heat map. It feels like local
The feedback was extremely excited .:
" While the difference between LAN and WAN [at 500 ms latency] was perceived, it was hardly so . "
" Very impressive results ... Hands down, Framehawk is a game changer. "
" Working at 35% packet loss! Welcome to the future ! "
Framehawk is compatible with NetScaler Gateway (including Unified Gateway 11.0+-F) and the Citrix receiver for Windows and iOS.
HDX templates
has proven Our experience over the years that it is rarely a default value that works well in any situation. With HDX Adaptive Orchestration, our software makes intelligent decisions based on the network conditions and the capabilities of the server and user device, but it is also important to give control to customers through management policies. In 2015, the HDX team delivered a number of fully revised policy templates that can think as the new default values (starting points) for various common primary customer goals, including:
- High Server Scalability
- Experience high definition user
- Optimized for WAN
- Maximum security and control
Marcel Calef blog post to view more to learn about these templates.
, the value of this policy templates and the accompanying white paper has with the community really resonated:
"full of essential information; upload it as soon as possible"
"Amazing the impact on CPU and bandwidth"
HDX realTime Optimization Pack
When organizations whitepaper, embracing unified communications and softphone applications, is the challenge, they can deliver a virtual workplace without depleting or degrading audio quality video server capacity. For several years, Citrix has a "optimized architecture" promoted that moves the media processing load on the user device whenever possible, and this approach has been embraced by UC industry leaders such as Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya and Vidyo. In June 2015, we have optimized support for Microsoft Skype for Business 2015 Client Lync UI mode. Then last week we have seen a new version of our HDX RealTime Optimization Pack that the Skype for Business Client provides the native UI mode. Stay tuned for a lot more about this new version tailored short!
Citrix Receiver
Citrix made significant improvements in our various Receiver versions in 2015, with the aim of the best HDX features and performance features on each device that wants to use the user.
Receiver for Windows was created with a single architecture, the characteristics of the company's receiver and the standard receiver to connect. Windows 10 was a great and fresh change this year to come back, especially with the start menu. We have the receiver on Windows 10 on "day zero" of its publication. H.264 hardware decoding, first introduced in the Receiver for Linux, has been available for Receiver for Windows to meet the customer demand for high performance with a resolution of 4K monitors on thin clients.
2015 also saw the implementation of our project X1 strategy consistent user experience and customization of web and desktop receiver versions. Receiver for Mac supports Apple's new El Capitan OS X Release 10:11 with fresh X1 user experience.
HTML5 receiver is now available as an SDK for ISVs, customers and partners who want to implement Portal Integration. Receiver for Chrome significant progress achieved in 2015 with quarterly releases, more and more applications on Chrome devices allow that to continue to catch the attention of corporate customers.
Receiver for Linux is now a full 64-bit client and allows double Hop with virtual Linux desktops. Receiver for Android allows creative device innovation with new classes of devices such as docking stations, set-top boxes and HDMI-out dongles, while at the same time its new HDX engine provides a significantly improved user experience with extensions such as fit-to-screen, support for mirroring the session display and for languages with left-to-right text.
Receiver for iOS added Framehawk support and enables 64-bit support. The X1 mouse became very popular, allowing for iPad and iPhone users a local Windows experience on these devices.
Citrix sets the receiver to develop and allow more and more applications for different industries. See our receivers feature matrix up-to-date to stay on receiver functions.
HDX SoC devices
While our focus in HDX team has an excellent in-session provide user experience when working with a virtual workspace that you have noticed, no doubt, that we also a lot of attention to costs. The HDX system-on-chip initiative aiming launched our thin client ecosystem partners to support, to reduce the cost of user equipment to the HDX Ready and HDX Ready Premium levels. An outstanding result of this program in 2015 was a release of ThinLinX for the Raspberry Pi 2. Ensure that "Eric" Haavarstein review read on xenappblog.com.
Linux VDA
Last year saw two major versions of Linux Virtual Desktop Agent, the recent improvements in Thin Wire and the H.264 codec for graphics and compatibility with all Citrix Receiver versions to support. The Linux VDA fits easily into your existing XenApp and XenDesktop architecture to replace only the Windows VDA in the mix with Linux. Linux desktop support is to generate a lot of excitement in the field, and this will certainly grow in 2016 with the addition of 3D graphics acceleration.
So, are we ready?
With all these innovations now out on the field, maybe you're wondering if it do something left.
in his recent article on BrianMadden.com " If the display protocol wars (finally!) Over? " Michel Roth, the conclusion that Citrix HDX with hands-down still the best user experience provides ", but then made this thought-provoking observation:
HDX already signs in the most incredible scenarios and I'm not sure what for HDX makes economically is to achieve meaningful leave.
is HDX now so great that we should shift our investments elsewhere? Are we done?
I raised this issue in the recent meeting of Citrix technology professionals in Ft. Lauderdale (by administering Knuth covered within the limits of the NDA in his December blog post). Our conclusions? End users are increasingly more demanding. And more and more mobile. So keep raising the bar to get higher. evolve addition applications, browsers and the Windows operating system itself. To stay for more exciting news from the HDX team next year it! There is much more to come.
Meanwhile, I encourage you to learn more about HDX technologies in our newly updated white paper. And when you visit a Citrix partner our Summit conference in Las Vegas this month, be sure to check these meetings:
- SUM217: Deployment Best Practices for all latest XenApp and XenDesktop HDX technology
- day 2 Technical Keynote
- SUM609: Delivery of Skype for businesses of XenApp and XenDesktop (Learning Lab)
- SUM187: Microsoft Skype for Business client Virtualization
- SUM507 with HDX Insight to optimize and fix your virtual delivery infrastructure
Derek Thorslund
director of product management, HDX
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