Remote Control Linkage

September 1997 / Reviews / Wireless Wonder / Remote Control Linkage

Citrix WinFrame diverts Windows screen updates, keyboard events, and mouse events to and from the Winterm 2930. The Winterm unit handles screen updates as if it were a Windows device driver. On the server, WinFrame intercepts calls to the Windows Graphical Device Interface (GDI) and redirects them to the client through the Intelligent Console Architecture (ICA, a protocol d eveloped by Citrix that lets NT distribute graphics processing to networked clients). Flash-upgradable ROM-based code in the Winterm understands ICA and handle s the redirected GDI calls.

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