Google's Chrome Remote Desktop App Surfaces

[win7holic]

Google has big plans for Chrome OS and Chromebooks and, surprising as it may seem, the enterprise market is a great opportunity for the market. Chromebooks have plenty of advantages for businesses and now, Google has revealed another one, a Remote Desktop tool based on Chromoting.

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[Ink]

Download the Extension (~19MB) from the Chrome Web Store:
Chrome Remote Desktop BETA

Details about how the technology works:

The protocol is something we designed and based on several google technologies:

1. Bottom layer is p2p connection established by libjingle [a Google collection of peer-to-peer software tools], this can be UDP, TCP, or relay through Google.
2. We use PseudoTcp implementation in libjingle to provide reliable connection.
3. On top of that is SSL connection.
4. Protobuf [Google's protocol buffers software] is used for structured data and framing.
5. Graphics is encoded using VP8 [Google's video codec].

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[Hungry Man]

Awesome. Thank you!