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BW0080 DEC 10,2001 5:03 PACIFIC 08:03 EASTERN
( BW)(CA-WYSE-TECHNOLOGY) Wyse Technology Delivers Energy Saving
Thin-client Solution for Crocker Nuclear Laboratory At UC Davis
Business Editors/Technology Writers
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2001--
Wyse's Secure, Managed Thin Clients Expected To Decrease Operating Costs, Ease Deployment And
Centralize Administration
As part of an effort to help the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) lower energy expenditures, reduce
overall operating costs and replace out-dated PCs, Wyse(R) Technology, today announced the
implementation of Wyse's Winterm(TM) thin clients in the CNL facility on the University of California,
Davis campus. CNL has attached specific research devices such as microbalances, temperature gauges,
spectrophotometers and air sampler controller cards to the Wyse secure, managed thin clients, replacing
PCs that had to be replaced frequently. With the thin-client deployment, CNL has been able to improve
the security and integrity of information while lowering energy consumption and IT costs.
"CNL needed a device that would operate more efficiently and cost effectively, and that is what Wyse
offers," said Matthew Harris, post-graduate researcher, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory. "Wyse products are
solid, stable, secure and provide the ideal solution for CNL."
The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory is one of several Organized Research Units (ORUs) on the UC-Davis
campus. CNL, which houses a nuclear particle accelerator, is capable of consuming more than 7 percent
of total campus power. Following the deployment of the Wyse Winterm thin clients, which were
delivered by Capital Network Solutions of Sacramento, CNL was able to reduce its peak power
consumption by more than 20 kilowatts.
Commitment to Research and Energy Savings
Wyse Winterm thin clients are desktop devices that run popular Windows applications from central
servers and display the applications on a monitor. They use energy-efficient National Semiconductor
Geode(TM) processors and have no internal moving parts such as fans or disk drives. A Wyse thin-client
with an integrated 15-inch monitor uses only 25 watts of power, whereas a desktop PC with 17-inch
monitor uses 171 watts of power - a savings of 146 watts, which when multiplied in California by the
hundreds of thousands of PCs in use in the state, can translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in
savings.
"Wyse Technology has a long-standing tradition of helping the education and research communities
maximize their IT dollars through innovative, effective and easy-to-use thin-client solutions," said George
Skaff, vice president of worldwide marketing for Wyse Technology. "Crocker Nuclear Laboratory is a
great example of how thin-client technology can help researchers meet educational and technological
goals through reduced energy usage."
More information regarding the energy savings of Wyse thin clients, including the whitepaper
"Desktop Energy Consumption: A Comparison of Thin Clients and PCs" can be found at
wyse.com.
Secure, Managed Thin Clients
Wyse's secure, managed thin clients help maximize IT budgets while minimizing the risk of unauthorized access to mission-critical information. Winterm thin clients deliver the key elements of security - authorization, authentication, integrity and confidentiality - through four levels of security. This includes a first-level user-name and password security shield built directly into the thin client, protecting the server from unauthorized access, support for smart cards as a form of two-factor authentication and support for biometric authentication devices (three-factor) that verify the thumbprint of the user when access to the system is desired, the use of Citrix's Secure ICA protocol, providing up to 128-bit end-to-end encryption of an ICA data-stream, and the elimination of local storage that can be hacked or fail, causing important communication like e-mail to be corrupted, modified or simply not to be received.
About Wyse Technology
Wyse Technology is the worldwide leader in thin clients, and is driving the Post-PC Era for business.
Wyse's Winterm line of thin clients is changing the desktop landscape by helping people communicate
and access information easily and affordably, regardless of where it resides. Through its channel of
Authorized Winterm Partners and well-known original equipment manufacturers' (OEM) labels
worldwide, Wyse has helped CIOs worldwide reduce the costs and complexity of modern IT
infrastructures by eliminating the reliance on personal computers as the only desktop device for
business. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, California and Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, with
offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Wyse website at wyse.com or call
1-800-GET-WYSE.
Wyse(R) and WY-(R) are registered trademarks, and Winterm(TM) is a trademark of Wyse
Technology Inc. Other product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Editor's Note: The appropriate full company name is "Wyse Technology Inc." rather than "Wyse
Technologies."
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