Nextop Advanced Protocol
Nextop's story began precisely with the creation of the remote management protocol. Thanks to:
unique compression algorithms for streaming images and audio
motion interpolation algorithms,
efficient data caching algorithms
a system of automatic selection of data transmission strategy based on the user's current connection
Nextop protocol has received scientific awards from Intel, CERN, Oracle, and Microsoft.
Detailed comparison report with Amazon Workspaces:
AirCloud_Amazon_Comparison.pdf
Video comparison of Nextop protocol with Amazon Workspaces:
Encrypting connections to VPMs
The Remote Management Protocol is a system service of the Nextop cluster, which means it is maintained by the Certificate Authority.
This means that for the Remote Management Protocol service on each individual server, a child certificate is generated from the root certificate of the central server generated during the initial Nextop installation. The public portion of the root certificate is obtained by each new client device at the time of initial installation.
The Nextop Certificate Authority allows you to encrypt not only connections to the VPM, but all internal and external connections within the Nextop infrastructure.
Remote Management Protocol Capabilities
The protocol is implemented using Web-stack technologies, making it cross-platform. However, to optimize the speed of the algorithms, the corresponding components were built natively and linked to Web-based rendering components.
The remote management protocol client is not a separate application and is fully integrated into a single Nextop application for managing infrastructure and access to VPMs. The application is currently implemented under the following operating systems:
Windows;
MacOS (Apple Silicon, Intel);
Linux OS family, including HP ThinPro;
A browser-based HTML5 version can be deployed upon customer request, but we do not recommend this version due to the lack of low-level optimizations and the presence of a cross-platform client application;
For Nextop thin clients, a separate version of the application has been implemented with low-level optimization for the hardware used in them. This version of the application reduces the system requirements for the client's graphics gas pedal and CPU, and thus significantly reduces their cost.
Optimization of transmitted video and audio from the guest OS. For this purpose, algorithms of automatic detection of the nature of the transmitted image, as well as synchronized channels of static image and video stream were applied.
Optimization of client Web-camera and microphone data using already used audio and video compression algorithms from the items above.
Support for USB storage devices, printers and scanners.
HiDPI mode support with the ability to configure the pixel density profile in the client application.
Support for configuring compression parameters of the transmitted image on the client side.
Support for two monitors with resolution not exceeding 4K.