Remote Access with Wake on LAN

Abstract

Decentralizing information and processes is an important challenge for companies nowadays. More and more companies need to have their information accessible at any time and from anywhere quickly and easily. Besides, they often need to rely on external support for their resources. Remote access is a relevant tool to promoting easy use of this feature and can become a competitive tool for a business to decentralize processes and functions in the organization. The greatest barrier to this is the network infrastructure on the companies that operate under NAT, since this makes remote access harder. In addition, keeping machines operating 24x7 and idle most of the time to enable an eventual remote access results in resource waste, especially in energy consumption and asset depreciation. This work proposes a simple and easy to use remote desktop access with the possibility of turning on equipment on demand using Wake on Lan (WoL). Besides the proposal, this work also presents a performance evaluation in the implemented platform.