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    Knowing About
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    Ward Nash (WN): Well WiFi as you know would be an older technology in
    the PC world and typically the thin client world hasn't had so much in
    WiFi because we've always been attached to a desk and we haven't done
    too much in the mobile space. But now we've added WiFi into our four
    operating systems that we use on a thin client today which are XP
    embedded, Linux, Windows CE and Wyse Thin OS. So this final
    announcement is adding WiFi to the Wyse Thin OS operating system and
    that allows for obvious connectivity to the network. For news and
    updates on WiMax logon to : www.knowingabout.com/wimax. But even more
    so in the thin client world, it is very important to be able to re-
    image these terminals remotely and make it easy to support them.
    That's the whole reason to go to thin client. So when you have a Wyse
    Thin OS operating system that the total size of it is 2MB and then you
    add WiFi capability you are then able to basically get a terminal
    completely out of the box straight from manufacturing, straight from
    the warehouse, plug it in, turn it on, it gets its image off the
    network and you're up and running; you only need two megabytes. When
    you add WiFi to that it only increases the ability to roll them out
    very quickly.

    IY: Does that mean that they've got an embedded browser now and WiFi
    connectivity?

    WN: Well on XP embedded, Linux and Windows CE, yes you would have an
    embedded internet browser so XP embedded in CE would have Internet
    Explorer where as Linux might have Mozilla Firefox. Then with Wyse
    Thin OS you would actually run your browser from the server using
    either VMware, Citrix or Microsoft terminal server.

    IY: OK. That's just one less problem with wiring that means you can
    locate these things in strange places like warehouse floors, point of
    sale; places where it's really hard to get a wire.

    WN: Certainly. We really noticed it when we did the Citrix solution
    show in the US where they wanted to put a bunch of Wyse terminals
    around the show for people to use kind of like internet kiosks. Just
    to pull them out of the box, turn them on plug them in, connect them
    wirelessly to the network, downloaded the images that they need, and
    away they go. It was very automated and you didn't really need an IT
    specialist, just anybody that could take the terminal out of the box,
    plug it in and we were up and running very quickly to do a trade show
    or labs at a school or something like that. You can pack them up and
    take them down very quickly too.

    IY: Yeah I guess if you are somewhere where you are going to be
    permanently occupying copper is a bit faster so people might wire
    things up. But there are some buildings that you want to occupy that
    you can't drill holes in. I am thinking Heritage listed. I was once
    working at a University which contained a lot of sandstone buildings
    where drills were not allowed.

    WN: Absolutely. Well thin clients, a big market for them is harsh
    environments so manufacturing plants... kind of the not so sexy
    companies do a lot of thin clients so manufacturing plants and
    assembly plants and car dealerships and that sort of thing. So WiFi is
    a big deal for them because they might not have walls to run the wire
    through. Like big manufacturing floors or places that have a lot of
    forklifts and that kind of thing; WiFi is a big deal for them as well.

    IY: And I guess they are not so fussed about having the old full-
    featured complete PC. I know you can run those things on thin clients
    but they wouldn't be doing that anyway. They are not going to be
    running Photoshop are they?

    WN: Absolutely right. They just want a terminal that is not worried
    about heat or dust or banging around. They don't have hard drives in
    them so you can put them on the back of a forklift and that kind of
    thing. They just want to get to their work and get it done as opposed
    to play movies or music and all that. For news and updates on of VoIP
    you can have a look at : www.knowingabout.com/voip. You can certainly
    still do that on a thin client but for the harsh environment people,
    they like the simplicity and the robustness of the thin client.

    IY: So obviously the next thing they would really be after is a WiFi
    thin client laptop and I bet you've got one coming?

    WN: We are working on it. I don't have any details at this point but
    it's all on the R&D machine but you will see one from us I am sure.

    IY: Yeah I can just think of environments where that would be kind of
    handy. I am thinking mining booms.

    WN: Certainly. Harsh environments where people drive out to the mine,
    have to collect some data and want to bring it back; to have no hard
    drive, the size and importance and cost of the data that I could
    imagine those guys would be collecting. You would want something that
    is fairly safe and fail proof.

    Source : http://www.knowingabout.com/wifi




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    Larry
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    Re: WiFi reaches the thin client

    Knowing About <[email protected]> wrote in
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    > Wyse Thin OS operating system


    Most interesting. Thanks.

    Larry
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