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Server-based computing has evolved into an intelligent way to save time, money and aggravation. Out of five remote-display servers, find out which provided the best management, features and performance for
January 28, 2005


The features don't end there. MetaFrame includes a complete policy-management framework that let us create policy filters and apply them by user, IP address or server. These policies can control encryption, bandwidth limits and client behavior settings. We used this feature to disable client audio capabilities and throttle client bandwidth to 32 Kbps for a select group of users connecting on a specific IP subnet. Let's see those pesky salespeople play with their MP3 collections now [insert crazed laughter].





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MetaFrame's remote-display protocol includes some unique, cutting-edge features. For example, it's the only product to support both audio output and input. More impressive, it let us play a sample video on our remotely displayed Internet Explorer using Citrix's SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration technology. SpeedScreen improves the response time of image-intensive Web pages, Macromedia Flash programs and video by "playing" the video or Flash presentation on the client device rather than on the server. However, this feature only with Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and RealOne Player on 32-bit Windows clients.

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