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I'm curious, do those terminal actually plug on regular internet?

Yes, it is just a regular computer running Bloomberg software. It is tightly locked down, you can't set it up to remote desktop into one.

Why not? How can it tell if you're remoteing? I though I've seen people use Bloomberg software over RDP and AWS Workspaces on Windows.

That's B-PIPE. You can get Bloomberg Market Data Feed via that. It's also a pre-built solution. You are not exactly connecting to your own computer/terminal

Bloomberg did regularly audit our Open Terminal. If you fall foul of their license agreement, you will have to pay up.

> It is tightly locked down, you can't set it up to remote desktop into one.

That's not exactly right.

There are two flavours of the terminal.

Anywhere, locked to a user via biometric login but can be installed on multiple machines, though running only on on e at a time.

Open Terminal, locked to a machine but anyone can log into it.

Its true that the open terminal wont' allow you to RDP into it, but bloomberg anywhere will let you rdp into a machine running it. I do that daily when working from home.

Essentially you can access BBG Anywhere without any hardware or BBG software, through a Citrix connection: https://bba.bloomberg.net/?utm_source=bloomberg-menu&utm_med...

Not true, I have been accessing remotely my BB Terminal since 2012. It's just an application that runs on any windows machine.

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