Secure remote control for your own powerful workstations

Work on the workstation. Keep it where it belongs.

Arcen is secure remote-control software for powerful Linux and Windows workstations. From a Mac, an artist or engineer can see and control the workstation as if sitting beside it. The workstation—not Arcen—runs the applications and stores the project files.

Available today: a direct, encrypted Deck-to-Pier connection over your LAN or VPN. You install it, operate it, and license it offline.

See what you get today See the VFX workflow

macOS Deck
Linux or Windows Pier
€199 per workstation, per year
No internet required

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No online service required

Many remote-access products depend on vendor-operated internet services. Arcen is built for customer-operated networks—including air-gapped environments with no internet connection.

Available now

One Mac. One workstation. One direct connection.

Install Arcen Deck on the Mac and Arcen Pier on the Linux or Windows workstation. Deck connects to the Pier address supplied by your IT team over the LAN or VPN route you already control.

Full workstation

See, control, and modify the host.

Use the desktop and applications according to the permissions of the signed-in workstation account.

Professional input

Work with mouse, keyboard, pen, and audio.

Use the workstation's GPU and applications while Deck carries the interactive work surface.

Customer controlled

Your accounts and host settings still decide.

The workstation OS controls file access. Pier settings control clipboard, audio, and microphone features.

Fully offline

No internet or Arcen service is required.

Direct sessions and the annual Pier licence check run locally on infrastructure you operate.

What this purchase is: secure remote-control software for macOS Deck and Linux or Windows Pier.

Why teams use it

Remote control without relocating the workstation.

Arcen is built for teams whose important applications, GPU power, and project data belong on workstations they operate—not on every laptop an operator carries.

Keep responsibilities clear

Project files remain the workstation's responsibility.

Arcen remote-controls the host. Storage, filesystem permissions, backups, and project security remain under systems operated by the customer.

Use the machine you own

Put the workstation's GPU where the work needs it.

Artists and engineers can work from somewhere else while the applications and compute remain on the workstation.

Keep authority with IT

Arcen remote-controls a workstation, not your whole network.

Deck connects to the Pier address you provide. The workstation OS still decides which files and projects the signed-in user may access.

Need certificate paths, protocol details, authentication order, or session-policy controls?

Read the technical architecture

Built for serious work

Start with the workflow closest to yours.

The product is the same direct workstation connection. The operating problem changes by team.

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VFX and media

Give artists the workstation without moving the production.

Remote colour, finishing, 3D, and editorial work with pen input, workstation audio, and GPU media paths.

See the VFX workflow

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Defence and engineering

Reach controlled engineering workstations from another desk.

Customer-hosted access for CAD, simulation, secure engineering, and locally controlled environments.

See the engineering workflow

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Legal and government

Let people work with documents without copying the files to another computer.

Remote-control a workstation near the documents while storage, accounts, and file permissions remain under customer operation.

See the document workflow

What you can buy today

One annual licence per workstation.

Buy a Pier licence for each Linux or Windows workstation. The current macOS Deck application is included.

Arcen Pier

€199per Pier, per year

One licence per workstation.

The licence verifies offline against the workstation HostID. Direct sessions do not depend on an Arcen-operated service or an internet connection.

Independent and actively developed

Buy the product that exists today. See separately what may come next.

Arcen is actively developed by an independent Norwegian team. Future development is funded by product revenue.

The current purchase is Direct: macOS Deck connecting to Linux or Windows Pier. Customer-operated Span, machine discovery, security-group filtering, and floating licensing are planned work—not features included today.

Because Direct sessions and licence checks run on your own infrastructure, the current product keeps working without an Arcen-operated service.

Read the future roadmap Review current scope

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Current scope

Arcen is under active development. Pricing is planning, not an offer. Arcen does not claim certification, regulatory approval, guaranteed latency, or suitability for a specific classified environment.

Full power. No distance.

The span between you and your machine.

Start with one workstation. Keep the machine, applications, and critical project data on infrastructure you control.