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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ............................................1
A. OVERVIEW ...........................................1
B. BENEFITS OF STUDY – WHY THIN CLIENTS? ..............2
C. RESEARCH QUESTIONS .................................4
1. Thin Client Network Fault Tolerance ...........4
2. Thin Client Disaster Recovery Plan: ...........4
II. LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................5
A. THIN CLIENT/SERVER-BASED COMPUTING (TCSBC) .........5
B. WYSE S90 OVERVIEW ..................................5
C. THIN CLIENT BENEFITS ...............................7
1. Hardware ......................................7
2. Total Cost of Ownership Savings ...............7
3. Centralized Management ........................9
a. More Efficient Management ................9
b. Secure Administrator Control ............10
c. Security ................................10
D. CHAPTER SUMMARY ...................................12
III. THIN CLIENT TECHNOLOGY ABOARD NPS ......................13
A. OVERVIEW ..........................................13
B. THIN CLIENT SERVER SPECIFICATIONS .................13
C. WYSE S90 IN DETAIL ................................15
1. Product Specifications .......................16
2. Wyse S90 System Benefits .....................16
a. Immediate Setup .........................16
b. Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Operating
System (OS) .............................18
c. Cost ....................................18
d. Lower Maintenance Requirements ..........19
e. Portability .............................19
D. WYSE DEVICE MANAGER (WDM) SOFTWARE ................20
E. CHAPTER SUMMARY ...................................22
IV. EXPERIMENTS .............................................23
A. BACKGROUND ........................................23
B. EXPERIMENT I ......................................24
1. Purpose of Conducting Experiment .............24
2. Preparations for the Experiment ..............24
3. Experiment Execution .........................25
4. Results and Conclusions ......................26
C. EXPERIMENT II .....................................26
1. Purpose of Conducting Experiment ...............26
2. Preparations for the Experiment ..............27
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