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As stated in a sister comment, it looks like Netflix is using DVC NICE for their VMs.

For the vast majority of this industry, the two larger players are Teradici with their PCoIP protocol (also licensed to VMware) and HP Remote Graphics Software (now known as ZCentral Remote Boost). Teradici is definitely the most widely used, but I know a couple of shops using RGS. NICE is an interesting project coming up in AWS, particularly since it's free for systems within the AWS cloud, and available outside of the cloud for a price.

I don't have any HP RGS experience myself, but with Teradici it currently supports Windows and Linux hosts, with software clients for Windows, Linux, and macOS. They also have hardware solutions (zero-clients) available so end-user operating systems aren't needed. Those clients are provided by third-party OEMs (e.g. 10Zig, Dell, etc) using the Teradici supplied chips[0]. macOS host support is coming later this year[1]. The host support is split up into two different categories: hardware with the Remote Workstation Cards which have a hardware encoder on them (uses a PCIe slot) that you plug display output into, and their software agents (standard and graphics) that don't require hardware and encode on the CPU and/or GPU depending on the agent you're using.

Teradici has also been fairly clear that software is the future of the product line, so the hostcards are not a good buy for long-term support. However they will be continuing the hardware clients with a "next-gen" zero-client coming out this summer with a boatload of new features over their older clients, but it's not really a zero-client in the truest definition of the word.

[0] https://www.teradici.com/resource-center/product-service-fin...

[1] https://connect.teradici.com/blog/macos-release



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