Remote NI-VISA Summary

Using remote NI-VISA is just one way to access hardware on another machine. If you have an existing application written using VISA and you need to use it from a different client, this may be the easiest solution. However, since each VISA operation invocation is a remote procedure call, your application performance may decrease, especially if it is register-intensive or has a significant amount of programming logic based on device responses or register values. The latency over Ethernet is better suited to applications that transfer large blocks of data. A better way to remotely access hardware is to make remote calls at a higher level, such as using Remote VI Server in LabVIEW.