Last modified:	Thursday, Mar 8, 2007	Article ID:	542
Related products:	Firmware v6.5.x (CE 4.2)

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Objectives

In order to optimize RDP performance towards WANs the following functionalities were added to the RDP client running on Chip PC image 6.0.0 devices. These options allow bandwidth saving and better session performance while establishing RDP sessions in low bandwidth environments.

Minimized RDP Bandwidth

The 'Minimized RDP Bandwidth' built-in functionality automatically reduces the amount of data sent via an RDP session once the session window is minimized to the taskbar. The bandwidth consumption of a minimized-session (an RDP session that is minimized to the taskbar) gets closer to zero transferring only 'keep alive' data between the client and the server.

Thanks to the 'Minimized RDP Bandwidth' functionality, scenarios where a user running multiple RDP sessions over a low bandwidth connection while consuming bandwidth for only a single session (the one with the active window) now become possible.

Procedures

Enable the 'Minimized RDP Bandwidth' functionality:

This functionality is built-in to the RDP Client running on image v6.0.0 devices. Session windows can be either minimized manually (by the user) or automatically after a specific idle time. The 'Minimize inactive RDP session after ### seconds' combo box located under the RDP Plug-in properties (see Figure 25.3.2) allows specifying the amount of idle time after which idle session windows are automatically minimized to the taskbar. In addition, once the local screen saver is in action all RDP sessions are minimized in order to save bandwidth.