

In 2008, VMware, lacking a performant protocol in-house, licensed Teradici PCoIP and included it for free with their products.

They established themselves as one of the most sophisticated and mature vendors in this market, and naturally carved out a niche in the most demanding cutting-edge use cases where the mass protocols didn’t quite cut it, focused around their PCoIP protocol. Later, brokering and management software followed, along with client software that meant you didn’t need to use Teradici’s dedicated hardware, and could instead repurpose generic PCs and laptops. To facilitate this, they developed sophisticated protocol and compression software to work with this hardware, as well as with more generic hardware. This included server and end point cards and the like, that often were incorporated into a range of end points, including thin clients. Teradici were traditionally a company that made hardware particularly good at processing graphics and for remote access.
