Program Managers have long been faced with a tough choice: continue using "fat" clients with their native CPU power, peripherals, and high maintenance costs or shift to "thin" and "ultra-thin" clients with their limited versatility. Now there is a way to benefit from both types of platforms with the "Diskless Stateless Client (DSC)."

Traditional "thin" client solutions work for 85% of a user's application needs. The other 15% are applications that involve high CPU usage (multimedia) or are device-specific (video teleconferencing). They are difficult if not impossible to implement in the thin client architecture.

The "DSC" client approach retains the "stateless" (diskless) nature of a thin client, but also has the CPU muscle of a standard workstation - a 100% "no-compromise" solution that offers:

1.  TCO savings (10:1)
2.  Single smart card log-in
3.  Maximum integration flex
4.  Net-centric reliability
5.  Existing client longevity
6.  Enhanced network security

Our approach is more than a new or modified platform; it is an architecture for heterogeneous computing environments that isn't "all-or-nothing." It is a solution that supplements, coexists, and transitions older client/server architectures.

Because "DSC" clients can use peripherals, such as an NSA Type 1 802.11b wireless encryption card, it makes a whole new mode of mobile computing possible.

Perfect for rapidly configuring COWANs or Homeland Security work groups, the "DISC" client's boot-over-the-network approach makes tablets and laptops easily de-classified appliances. Secure and wireless MSL is feasible, as are the benefits of portable point, click, draw, speak, video, and write tablets - providing a new way to work.

 

A Network Centric Architecture
With These Benefits:

 

1. Scaleable Distributed Processing
Centralized management of information, applications, and client processing. CPU intense applications run on the client.
2. Stateless Client Appliances - Or Not
Configure existing PCs, laptops, and tablets with no persistent storage (stateless), creating plug and play clients. Turn them off to declassify.
3. Increased Security and Reliability
Central storage, authentication, monitoring and auditing. Wireless clients designed for NSA
Type 1 encryption support.
4. Rapid Re-configuration
Stateless wired and wireless clients can be moved, re-booted with a new user, or at a new security level - immediately!
5. Interoperable
Heterogeneous solution, works with different server operating systems and with existing architectures. Enables transition of some or all PCs to distributed processing clients within existing application-server frameworks.
6. Client "Template" Selections
Individual clients (PC, laptop, tablet) or work groups of clients can be loaded with distinct Operating System identities and applications.
7. Makes Current PCs Reusable
Provides a transition path for existing obsolete "fat-client" hardware instead of replacement.
8. Non-proprietary

Unlike thin client terminals, DISC clients do not require proprietary hardware. The technology works with standard PCs, laptops, notebooks, and tablets. The only requirements are an up-to-date system BIOS and a PXE capable NIC.

 

Syzygy has supported the SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego Network-Centric Computing (NCC) lab for more than 3 years. Syzygy has also supported the 54-unit thin client architecture on the USS Coronado. This support included:

1. Installation and evaluation of thin client products (Sun, WYSE, and others)
2. Installation and evaluation of translators and emulator products for mixed OS
3. Development of Java scripting to integrate Windows and UNIX servers with Solaris Servers and Sun thin clients
4. Design, development, integration, and production of smart cards for user log-in
5. System administration, network administration, and lab hardware and software upgrades and installation
6. Performance metric definition, test development and network load testing

For more information contact Joe Discar or call (619) 297-0970