Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is rapidly growing as a powerful and cost-efficient method to manage applications and user desktops. Popular products include VMware View (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server) and Windows Terminal Services.
Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System™ (ANS) ensures the performance of desktop virtualization solutions over the WAN. With features totally automated and scalable to the largest enterprise deployment, ANS enables organizations to:
- Identify and classify virtual desktop flows and applications
- Analyze user behavior during interactive transactions
- Account for specific types of virtual desktop flows (PCoIP, ICA or RDP)
- Account for sensitivity to delay and losses in addition to bandwidth requirements for each active user
- Ensure maximum throughput for transactions with data transfer and print phases
- Report on the WAN's contribution to end-user QoE using the Application Quality Score® (AQS) metric
Desktop Virtualization generates a very interactive type of traffic over the WAN. The end-user experience is directly linked to WAN performance and how the flows coexist with other applications on the network. Using Ipanema’ ANS, the performance of virtualized desktop applications is guaranteed across the whole WAN whatever happens on the network.








