Case Study: Lambton College achieves smooth video playback and reliable VDI performance with Teradici's APEX 2800 server offload card

Lambton College - Customer Case Study

Lambton College, a 6,500‑student institution in Ontario, was transitioning from desktop PCs to a VMware View virtual desktop environment to address limited lab space and a campus‑wide virtualization plan. Early in the rollout, students and faculty experienced poor video and graphics playback—critical to coursework—which threatened the deployment’s business case because server density was already at its minimum.

The college deployed the Teradici APEX 2800 server offload card to hardware‑encode PCoIP and offload display processing from the CPUs. The card immediately improved video and application quality, provided a consistent user experience even with 1 vCPU per VM, eliminated related support tickets, enabled a six‑week proof of concept, and got Lambton’s virtualization plan back on track.

Lambton College