Back to the Future: When Video Conferencing Becomes the Bottleneck of VDI Infrastructure

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This article explains why VDI environments can become a bottleneck when video conferencing, CAD/CAM, and multimedia workloads increase. It compares CPU, GPU, RAM, and network constraints and shows how user experience drops when VDI is underprovisioned. It also reviews optimization methods such as GPU vGPU, multimedia redirection, browser content redirection, and codec choices. The piece highlights how Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, Citrix, and VMware-style environments interact with VDI performance requirements. It also outlines practical sizing guidance for different workloads and device classes.

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