The Sun white paper "Sun Secure Global Desktop Software: The Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP)" (login or registration required) characterizes the subject software as designed to provide optimal performance over complex network routes with varying bandwidths, employing heuristics to determine the type of device and network connection used and using these parameters to dynamically adapt and optimize performance.

With Sun Secure Global Desktop Software, users can benefit from the server's ability to maintain a persistent session, enabling disconnects from a session and later reconnects from a different location if necessary. The reconnected session continues, using the same set of running applications, the paper reports.

Users can also switch the type of client device used when reconnecting to a session, starting off, for example, by reading mail at home on a Mac, then going to work and continuing the session on a Windows XP desktop. In such a case, the AIP detects any change of client device or connection and automatically adapts to ensure optimal network performance.

The white paper provides a high level overview of the Adaptive Internet Protocol, explaining where AIP fits into the Sun Secure Global Desktop Software framework, giving a basic overview of AIP, and following that up with a closer look at some of the heuristics involved in implementing the protocol specifically for graphical applications.

The contents are divided into three parts:

• About Sun Secure Global Desktop Software

• Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP), which discusses AIP processing

• AIP for the Graphics Protocol/Display Engine, with sections on request pruning, merging, conversion and approximation; update scheduling; caching; variable compression; packet shaping and flow control; bandwidth monitoring; and AIP configuration.

Among the virtues of AIP enumerated in the white paper's conclusion are that the solution is a unique technological breakthrough for server-hosted architectures and remote presentation that automatically adapts itself to ensure data is delivered to the client at optimal performance levels, regardless of the type of application or desktop operating system, or whether the application or desktop resides inside a virtualized environment.

By using AIP, not only does the management information system not need to know about the client device type, users themselves now have the freedom to change client devices at any time, allowing them to freely move from the office to home or to anywhere they have access to a web browser, the paper notes.

AIP uses intelligent heuristics to automatically adapt as the network traffic changes. Due to its self-learning nature, it is completely hidden from the user and requires no input on their part, resulting in the greatest possible remote experience, making it, in effect, an invisible and capable servant.

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