In May 2009, Citrix released Citrix XenDesktop™ 3 Feature Pack 1, a simple, in-place upgrade to the industry-leading virtual desktop solution. The Feature Pack offers a trial release of Citrix HDX MediaStream™ for Flash technology, graphics and video performance optimizations, HDX RealTime Voice-over-IP (VoIP) softphone compatibility, extended Smart Card integration and a number of other product enhancements.

 

Whether you are currently using XenDesktop in production or just beginning a virtual desktop proof-of-concept, download the Feature Pack to take advantage of the latest advancements and performance benefits, such as:

 

• Citrix HDX MediaStream for Flash: Trial Release: This technology makes XenDesktop the first and only virtual desktop solution to enable a truly local-PC experience with resource-intensive Adobe Flash videos, animations and applications. With an estimated 99% of all Internet users accessing Flash-based content (source: Adobe Systems, Inc.), this capability is an important part of the virtual desktop experience. It leverages the processing power of a user’s endpoint device to provide a seamless streaming video experience through Microsoft Internet Explorer, even with high definition video content. It also reduces server and network load, resulting in higher virtual desktop scalability and lower server and networking infrastructure costs.
• VoIP softphone compatibility: Through enhancements to the HDX RealTime capabilities, XenDesktop enables office workers to get a complete virtual desktop experience that includes voice communications. Combined with existing support for microphones, headsets and bidirectional audio, XenDesktop is able to deliver powerful collaboration and communications functionality to enhance productivity and user satisfaction with their virtual desktops.
• Smart Card integration enhancements: The Feature Pack expands on existing Smart Card integration to include support for Linux endpoints. It also enhances the SmoothRoaming capability to allow users to move to another device—even with a different card reader—and have their virtual desktop session automatically follow them. New features also ensure that security measures remain intact for Smart Card-enabled applications as well—the Smart Card is passed through to applications that are hosted or streamed from XenApp. No other virtual desktop solution offers as seamless and complete an integration with Smart Card authentication solutions to address your security and compliance requirements.

 

All these capabilities, plus additional performance tuning that enhances user experience with Silverlight and QuickTime video, graphics, animations and other on-screen motion, is available for download on MyCitrix.

 

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