Hi Ivar,
Nice story about what has happened with the Sunray grid.
Any ideas on how this will move forward?
What I heard is that this might become a commercial offering from Sun or
via some other partners. I suppose any service provider could offer such
a service. And I read somewhere there are a few already planning to do
so. That said, I have to say that additional work may need to be done if
this were to become a successful commercial offering, chiefly for the
reasons you're mentioning below.
A little comment on the bandwidth usage: what kind of websites did you
browse?
We noticed that consumers use other websites then technical people.
Consumer websites tend to contain much more flash, and other multimedia
advertisements.
These websites require much more than 1 Mbit Sunray traffic to view them
well.
But we are in the lucky situation that fiber and ADSL2+ are widely
available at affordable prices.
Did you work with ADSL 2+ in your tests?
What I found using some simple measurements is that the Sun Ray in this
configuration used only about 20% of available bandwidth of a
residential DSL connection. This DSL had, as you say, about 1Mb/s
throughput. The Sun Ray can be configured to use more bandwidth, as I
understand it. So one point that I didn't want to make in the article is
that a provider might have to trade bandwidth for less latency, i.e.,
configure the system to use a lot more (or even all) the available
bandwidth. That's perhaps realistic for a residential network
connection, since the Sun Ray could pretty much have the network for
itself while in use, i.e., use all the bandwith.
BTW, I'd encourage knowledgeable folks on this list to post comments for
the article online. Those comments will be visible to the "uninitiated"
and thus encourage more interest (hopefully).
Thanks,
-- Frank
Kind regards,
Ivar
Frank Sommers wrote:
Hi,
For those interested in using the Sun Ray in a WAN environment, I was
recently able to evaluate such a setup in the context of Sun's
prototype "display grid." The display grid is a hosted desktop
environment that can be accessed via the Internet. Artima Developer
just published an article about this experience. This article may be
rather basic for many of you on this list, but towards the end there
are some bandwidth usage figures that might be of interest nevertheless:
http://www.artima.com/articles/desktop_grid.html
Thanks,
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