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- 08-21-2007, 05:42 AM #1Knowing AboutGuest
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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- 08-21-2007, 08:59 AM #2LarryGuest
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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