Guacamole also supports SSH/telnet, and is very snappy thru html5. I autogenerate a guac config file for all the switches on each site at work, and even on high

Guacamole also supports SSH/telnet, and is very snappy thru html5. I autogenerate a guac config file for all the switches on each site at work, and even on high-latency low-bandwith sites on wireless it still works great. Definitely better than a console session via RDP or VNC. This has the extra benefit that you can lock your switches down to only be managed thru certain IPs and enforce session recording.