Citrix MetaFrame MetaFrame Presentation Server, Reviewer'S Manual

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24 MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide
Enhanced Multimedia Support
MetaFrame Presentation Server offers the following major multimedia
enhancements.
SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration
SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration optimizes streaming multimedia playback
through published instances of or remote desktop connections to Internet Explorer,
Windows Media Player, and RealOne Player. This feature offers significant
performance gains in the following areas:
• User Experience. Multimedia playback in ICA sessions is about as smooth as
local playback
• Server CPU Utilization. The client device decompresses and renders
multimedia content, freeing up server CPU utilization
• Network Bandwidth. Multimedia content is passed over the network in
compressed form, reducing bandwidth consumption
SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration
SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration allows you to optimize the way MetaFrame
Presentation Server renders and passes Macromedia Flash animations to users.
Flash animations are a common component of many Web sites and Web
applications.
SpeedScreen Image Acceleration
Using lossy image compression, SpeedScreen Image Acceleration offers you a
trade-off between the quality of photographic image files as they appear on client
devices and the amount of bandwidth the files consume on their way from server to
client. Lossy image compression reduces the size of image files the server sends to
the client by removing redundant or extraneous data from the files.