What is Intel® Remote Wake Technology (Intel® RWT)

By Joseph Edelstein (Intel) (7 posts) on August 19, 2008 at 4:11 pm

It’s been a long break from blogging for me.  The technologies I was driving were not publicly announced thus I couldn’t blog about them.   The first has now hit the press so here we go with what is Intel® Remote Wake Technology (Intel® RWT)

With usages of our PC’s moving in to more and more usages the old dilemma of do we keep it on all the time for full accessibility or do we power it down / put it in to standby become even more acute.  Today if we are using the PC as a media server or a soft-phone (e.g. by using Skype) we would really need to keep it on at all times.  It’s not just that it has to be on to receive a call but it needs to be maintain its registration with the soft-phone server. 

This is where Intel Remote Wake Technology comes in.  We have implemented Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) support that runs out of band below the OS.  Once your Intel WRT enabled machine has been properly configured the Intel Manageability Engine will both maintain your SIP registration as well as waking your machine when a session is initiated allowing handoff to an agent running in the OS.  Now your machine can be in standby and if your soft-phone supports Remote Wake you will appear to others to be online and reachable.

While the press is currently highlighting the ability to wake for a VoIP call this technology actually allows for more than just VoIP.  And various usages allowing users to connect from the outside in to their machines are being worked.

Categories: Manageability

Comments (5)

August 19, 2008 11:50 PM PDT


Hunter		 Where can I get related document for programmer? I want to support RWT in our remote desktop access service.

Thanks.
September 25, 2008 10:34 AM PDT


Dang		 Hi,
How about if I want to wake my PC up by SMS or somethign else? In case that I don't have the remote device.
thanks
dang
February 6, 2009 2:17 AM PST


Roland		 Is there an SDK available for RWT? I looked in the AMT v5 SDK but couldn't see anything relevant.
April 8, 2009 7:44 AM PDT


Chris		 Is there a way to disable this remote wake stuff? I have a machine with a fixed IP and RWT is causing confusion in the networks by DHCPing.

The machine is on 24/7, so I don't need RWT.
April 8, 2009 1:33 PM PDT


Chris		 Aha. Looks like you can do it from the Ctrl-P menu as it boots up.

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