SUN RAY(TM) ENTERPRISE APPLIANCE - Specifications

Codename was Corona

Introduction date was November 15, 1999
 

• - Hot Desk The Sun RayTM 1 enterprise appliance is a small,
• Architecture fanless enclosure that connects to a display device,
• - Features & keyboard and mouse. Its main functions are to process
• Benefits all input and output for the user and to manage
• - Specifications communication with the shared Sun Ray enterprise
• server.
• - Enterprise
• Server The Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance supports graphics
• Software resolutions of 1280 x 1024 with 24-bit color and a
• - Interconnect vertical refresh rate of up to 85 Hz, enabling
• - Technical outstanding display quality. Peripheral I/O is provided
• Information through four USB ports, and a 10/100BaseT Ethernet
• - ISV Solutions interface provides access to the private interconnect.
• Multimedia ready, it offers standard, stereo audio out
• and mono input, and standard composite video input for
• video conferencing applications.

• Related: The Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance ships in a [Image]
• - White Papers "headless" configuration with a Sun Type 6 USB
• - In the News keyboard and USB mouse. Current Sun 17-inch, 19-inch,
• and 21-inch monitors and Sun's 18-inch flat panel
• display are supported, as are selected earlier
• generations of Sun 17-inch and 20-inch monitors. In
• See Also: addition, it is designed to work with standard VGA
• - StarOffice monitors commonly used with personal computers,
• - Workgroup enabling flexible configurations and allowing
• Servers organizations to leverage their existing IT
• - How to Buy investments.

The Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance includes a built-in
smart card reader that conforms to the ISO-7816
standard. The size of an ID badge or credit card, smart
cards can provide easy and instant identification and
authentication of users. The default authentication
policy does not require a smart card, and therefore,
they are not shipped with the product.

Technical Specifications

• Feature Specification
• Enclosure Slimline desktop box
• 180 mm H x 50 mm W x 180 mm D
• Graphics 24-bit, 2D acceleration, up to
• 1280 x 1024 @ 85 Hz
• Interconnect 10/100BaseT
• Supported Input 4 powered USB ports
• Devices and Type 6 USB keyboard and
• Peripheral I/O "Crossbow" USB mouse
• SunMicrophoneTM II (optional)
• SunCameraTM (optional, no I/O card required)
• Audio 16bit 48.1KHz stereo audio,
• line level in/out, headphone
• out, and microphone in
• Composite Video Input NTSC/PAL
• Energy Management Energy star compliant
• Smart Card Reader ISO-7816 compliant

The Sun RayTM 1 enterprise appliance design affords
considerable benefits:

* Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance's stateless nature
helps ensure no loss of work if a Sun Ray 1
enterprise appliance fails - a replacement unit
can simply be plugged in, or the user can move to
another Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance within the
workgroup and continue working uninterrupted. This
statelessness also enables easy session mobility,
as users can access their unique session from any
enterprise appliance within the workgroup.
* Individual Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliances do not
require any setup or configuration, making units
instantly replaceable.
* Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliances become fully
functional in less than 10 seconds after plug-in
(essentially, the time required for monitor
warm-up), reducing down-time and lost productivity
of users.
* No local rendering is performed within the desktop
appliance, eliminating problems with missing fonts
and enabling consistent output.
* No computation occurs on the Sun Ray 1 enterprise
appliance, reducing resource bottlenecks common to
low-end desktop systems.
* There are no user-serviceable parts in the Sun Ray
enterprise appliance, simplifying maintenance. A
small number of failure and fault diagnostics are
handled through simple on-screen display graphical
icons.

The fanless Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance is
noise-free, yet offers high-quality graphics and
multimedia capabilities. The interconnect utilizes
standard Ethernet networking technologies and
components, resulting in a low-cost private network.

The Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance architecture has a
unique benefit in that it only needs to deliver
services at a performance level set by "human
bandwidth." Once the Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance is
capable of meeting the input/output requirements set by
the limits of human perception, a faster processor or
more memory will not provide any additional benefit to
the user. Thus the cost of the Sun Ray 1 enterprise
appliance is a fixed, one-time expense, as there is no
need to upgrade to better or faster components.

Firmware

Each Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance includes 512 KB of
Flash EPROM that contains the system firmware. This
system firmware handles Power-On Self Test (POST),
communication with the server, authentication,
on-screen displays, audio and video control, and local
device drivers.