President and COO of Sun Federal Bill Vass' Weblog

Friday Jun 13, 2008

I just received my new Tadpole M1400 Ultra-Thin Client Wireless Sun Ray from General Dynamics C4 Systems. It's very cool and you can use it anywhere...from Starbucks to hotels...and even on JetBlue Flights. It features built in 802.11a/b/g wireless technology and allows users to login at any time for access to their session any place there is Wi-Fi, or 3G cell based wireless networking for access from remote locations where there isn't any Wi-Fi. If your cell phone works, or you can get Wi-Fi, or have a broad band Ethernet connection... you can have your desktop.

Like all Sun Rays, all communication is completely encrypted/secured with an IPsec tunnel over the network (each device has its own SIM chip), with an additional 128 bit SSL tunnel within the IPsec tunnel based on a second user SIM chip on the JavaBadge (two factor) that goes all the way to the virtual desktop in the server's memory. That's two multi-factor tokens, and two sets of encrypted tunnels, along with firmware validation and dynamic packet compression with masked headers. All this works together to provide one of the most secure connections you can find short of classified rated encryption....which of course is also an option.

Can't wait to see what Bob Gourley thinks...He just received his too. We also just started testing it with some of our government partners and customers, so check back for updates and reactions.

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Comments:

will this be sun's ipod in its widespread commercial success? when will some ISPs agree to manage users at a scale that will allow the normal home user to abandon their PCs in preference for the sunRay?

Posted by doba on June 16, 2008 at 02:26 PM EDT #

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