Ignision Server is the core of Aqua Connect's Remote Desktop products. It is a versatile and extensive component of Aqua Connect's offerings. Ignision Server fulfills several roles traditionally compartmentalized into either separate products or separate components of a product suite. Ignision Server includes a powerful session broker that can deploy macOS desktops and applications from one or more servers. It can scale from a single server to a large pool of cooperative servers. Regardless of the size of an organization there is an Ignision Server offering and deployment strategy for it. Ignision Standard Edition is optimized for smaller businesses to some medium sized businesses. With Ingision Standard Edition, many of the complexities needed to run a robust server with the delivered feature set have been taken care of automatically. For organizations with complex deployments or complex deployment needs, Ignision Enterprise Edition is designed to provide access to many complex configuration options as well as being highly customizable.

Ignision Standard Edition and Ignision Enterprise Edition both include the same Ignision Server core and thus can deploy and deliver a macOS desktop with built-in features such as load balancing. Some features such as health monitoring, central management, network auditing, network logging, scripting and replication require a complex setup and configuration process which Ignision Enterprise Edition is designed to deliver. Almost all Ignision Standard Edition and Ignision Enterprise Edition features are optional and do not need to be configured or utilized allowing an organization to enable some, all or none of them at installation time. Ignision Standard Edition and Ignision Enterprise Edition features are included with the selected product bundle making the licensing, maintenance, cost and understanding of each product simpler then traditional server products.

Ignision Standard Edition and Ignision Enterprise Edition both utilize Aqua Connect’s Ion Protocol. The Ion Protocol is a specially designed accelerated protocol for delivering macOS, Windows and various other graphical system interfaces over a remote network link such as the Internet. Ion includes many features in the protocol such as load balancing, network fail over and network link quality detection.

With Ignision Standard Edition and Ignision Enterprise Edition providing the same Ignision Core, a simple chart providing a list of different features included in the product bundle is listed below. The Ignision Enterprise Edition includes all the features of the Ignision Standard Edition while enabling the usage of several more complex features. Ignision Enterprise Edition is designed to interoperate with a large and more diverse network deployment. Ignision Enterprise Edition includes better integration into Directory Services such as LDAP and Active Directory while also allowing a more centralized administration of the system through a unified graphical tool and through command line driven tools. It also includes many server side scripting components thus allowing the product to be customized to an organization’s specific needs.

This product is protected by one or more Patents, including U.S. Patent No. 8,924,502 and RE46,386.

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Features To Be Added in Future Versions