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Chairman's Award for Innovation: Wide-Area Sun Ray
Tarik Ono, Tom O'Neill, Russ Brown,
flanked by Scott McNealy (L) and Greg Papadopoulos (R)
The Wide-Area Sun Ray software was developed in Sun Labs to demonstrate
that existing Sun Ray hardware could, using software compression, enable
Sun Rays to be used over wide area networks like DSL or cable modems.
This proof of concept has led to a product plan for a launch of wide-
area Sun Ray software (now known as the Broadband Sun Ray). The Wan Ray
also demonstrated that compression makes Sun Rays work better, even
locally, because the systems use significantly less network bandwidth
than normal Sun Rays. This development extends the same total cost of
ownership and security benefits of thin clients from the enterprise to
remote use, where the costs of system administration and security
concerns are significantly higher.
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