Oracle’s Sun Ray Clients provide customers with an interoperable, zero-administration desktop client solution that reduces the maintenance, upgrade, and operational costs commonly associated with PC environments. The ultra - secure, ultra - reliable Sun Ray 3 Plus Client has industry leading features such as built - in fibre optic networking, native dual - display capabilities and an integrated smart card reader. Sun Ray Clients are designed for secure, high performance virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, yet don’t require a local operating system, eliminating the complexity, cost, and vulnerabilities associated with other thin client and PC solutions.

Sun Ray Technology Overview

Zero-administration Sun Ray Clients enable access to server hosted applications and desktops for virtually any platform — Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and other Linux, or Microsoft Windows — to meet the needs of a diverse enterprise today and well into the future. The Sun Ray Client architecture consists of two major components: the Sun Ray Client device and Sun Ray Software.

Sun Ray Clients are simple, low-cost, low-power consumption devices that require no desktop administration. Sun Ray Clients differ from complex PCs and other thin clients with embedded operating systems because they have no local operating system (such as Windows XP Embedded or Windows CE) to manage, administer, or create vulnerabilities.

This also eliminates the need to upgrade the client when new applications are introduced or more computing power is required. For maximum convenience and security, every Sun Ray Client contains an integrated smart card reader, enabling a user to simply insert their smart card into any available Sun Ray Client and instantaneously accesses their existing session over a local or wide-area network (LAN or WAN).

Sun Ray Software provides user, client, and server authentication, firmware updates, as well as user session management across the environment. User sessions are load balanced across the servers in the group to optimize performance for users. Sun Ray Software and clients utilize Oracle’s unique Appliance Link Protocol (ALP) that is specifically designed to enable Sun Ray Clients to work seamlessly over both LAN and WAN distances without requiring WAN repeater hardware, reducing cost and complexity.