Software distribution, Network copy performance – Apple Remote Desktop 3 User Manual

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Technology Overview
Apple Remote Desktop 3

Custom install packages
Apple Remote Desktop 3 includes the Apple
Package Maker utility, making it easy to
create custom install packages for installation
of organization-specific software. Once you’ve
created the package, you can copy and install
the software to a specified location using
Apple Remote Desktop.

Software Distribution

Apple Remote Desktop 3 is an ideal solution for installing or upgrading software
across multiple Mac systems. Whether it’s a new version of Mac OS X or a suite of
applications, it’s easy to keep all of your computers up to date—without interrupting
your users or requiring any user interaction. Users don’t even need to be logged in.
And with the new AutoInstall feature, administrators can initiate a software installation
and let Apple Remote Desktop 3 take care of the rest.

Network Copy Performance

Apple Remote Desktop 3 performs copy operations up to 11 times faster than its
predecessor, Apple Remote Desktop 2.2, with best performance over a Gigabit
Ethernet network.

Network copy performance: 1000BASE-T

Up to 11 times faster than version 2.2

Remote Desktop

version 2.2

version 3.0

Copy Microsoft Oﬃce folder (528MB)

282

10.8x

Time to copy to 50 clients (seconds)

Copy incompressible test file (1024MB)

477

11.1x

Time to copy to 50 clients (seconds)

Testing conducted by Apple in December 2005 using prerelease Apple Remote Desktop software. Target machines were 50 Power Mac computers
with dual-processor 2.5GHz G5, 2GB of RAM, and running Mac OS X v10.4.3.

Network copy performance: 100BASE-T

Up to 5 times faster than version 2.2

Remote Desktop

version 2.2

version 3.0

Copy Microsoft Oﬃce folder (528MB)

273

5.2x

Time to copy to 50 clients (seconds)

Copy incompressible test file (1024MB)

472

103

4.6x

Time to copy to 50 clients (seconds)