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Sun Ray Server Software

Acts as a broadcaster, delivering customized content to each Sun Ray client on the network. Channel 1 might be Microsoft Windows, Channel 2 might be Linux, and Channel 3 might be the Solaris OS. It provides user authentication and encryption between server and client, as well as user session management. This not only enhances security, but also helps reduce complexity and administration of the IT environment. Sun Ray Server Software provides automatic load balancing, optimizing performance by distributing sessions across servers in the group. Load balancing takes into account each server's load and capacity - the number and speed of its CPUs - so that larger or less heavily loaded servers bear more of the load.

Sun Ray Connector for Windows

The Sun Ray Connector for Windows directly connects to Microsoft Windows Terminal Server.

Display Full-Screen Windows: With the controlled access mode of Sun Ray Software, you can lock down the screen to display Windows only desktop, giving you all the great security and mobility benefits of Sun Ray technology for full-screen Windows. And, it gets better.

Authenticate Windows Applications with a Smart Card: Each Sun Ray Thin Client has a built-in smart-card reader for consistent and secure hot-desking mobility. Now with the Sun Ray Connector for Windows and partner middleware, such as ActivClient from ActivIdentity, you can not only hot desk your Windows session, but also use that same smart-card reader to do two-factor authentication to Windows, digitally sign e-mail or documents, and encrypt or decrypt documents. Smart card-based authentication is an essential building block for enterprise security.

Get More Windows Features: The Sun Ray Connector for Windows supports USB flash disks, external hard drives, and other mass storage devices directly in the Windows environment. Also, you can take advantage of its remote control capabilities to let a system administrator troubleshoot or train an employee while sharing the same Windows Terminal Server Session.

Sun Desktop Access Client

The Sun Desktop Access Client is a software application that installs easily on common client operating systems and provides the ability to connect to Sun's desktop virtualization software. This new software client provides end-users the flexibility to utilize their existing Windows laptops or desktop PCs, as an alternative to Sun Ray thin clients, to easily access data and applications in a centralized virtual desktop environment. It also provides seamless integration with Sun Ray hardware clients, allowing end-users to instantly move their live desktop session to and from any Sun Ray thin client and any supported Sun Desktop Access Client enabled PC.

Providing client device choice to access your centralized virtual desktop, improves mobility and data access, helps to mitigate the costs and challenges with migration to an alternative desktop solution, extends the life of existing PC assets, and reduces the environmental impact of having to do frequent desktop refreshes.

Add-on Components

Sun Ray Connector for VMware View Manager allows Sun Ray users to connect to Windows virtual machines via the VMware View Manager.

Smart Card authentication with PC/SC-Lite 1.2 enables access to smart cards via USB readers or Sun Ray readers.

Note: If you access terminal server functionality provided by Microsoft operating system products, you need to purchase additional licenses to use such products. Consult the license agreements for the Microsoft operating system products you are using to determine which licenses you must acquire.