Which Protocol - Blast Extreme, PCoIP, or RDP?
Now that we have a good understanding of PCoIP, Blast Extreme, and RDP, which one would you choose?
The most compelling reason to go with PCoIP is the fact that it uses the UDP protocol, which is much better suited to streaming media, and therefore lends itself perfectly to the characteristics of virtual desktop delivery, but as discussed, Blast can also use UDP as the delivery protocol. Just to highlight again, UDP is not concerned with how the data ends up on the endpoint device; it's only concerned with the speed of delivery and how quickly it gets there.
On the other hand, RDP uses TCP as its protocol, which is widely used across the Internet. The key difference with TCP is that it is concerned with how the data is being received. TCP requests an acknowledgment from the endpoint device as to whether or not it has received all of the packets successfully. If the endpoint device does not receive what it was expecting, then it replies, asking...