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January 26, 2008
Thin Client in Self-Service Terminals and Kiosks
New offerings from self-service kiosk provider KIOSK announced. Hiring stations for Walmart are example of self-service kiosks utilizing thin clients. KIOSK is now offering customers wishing to use thin clients a complete range of manufacturers including but not limited to HP, VXL, Ncomputing, Wyse, Neoware and DTRI. Custom computing platforms such as mini-ITX from Intel ($79 retail) are available for integration.
Overview
Many of our customers have speciallized PC requirements which can require integration of a thin client terminal. These pc terminals most notably by HP Compaq, Wyse and others operate as thin client either via ICA or RDP protocols. Additionally there are multi-user terminals (such as Ncomputing) that facilitate multiple RDP clients supported by one central host PC.
"Thin Clients" also must be selected for the Operating System or O/S that is appropriate. The potential OS varies from vendor specific O/S to Linux to all variants of Windows (XP Pro, XP Embedded, WePOS or CE).
Thin Client Options
* Multi-station
o Ncomputing - multi-station
* Conventional
o DTR
o HP Compaq
o Neoware
o VXL
o Wyse
o Other various
KIOSK has the experience and expertise to assist you in selecting, integration and support of these units.
Posted by staff at January 26, 2008 11:37 PM