Isn the thin-client idea old hat?
It’s a very old idea, for the simple reason that it makes sense. It’s had a bad press because earlier attempts to create working thin-client networks were over-hyped and tended to give disappointing performance. Fundamentally, we believe that to achieve our vision of a truly affordable thin-client terminal we had to design a piece of hardware using a completely different design philosophy. The nivo client that has emerged from our collaboration with DisplayLink had a very different design philosophy to existing thin-client hardware. Whereas most designers started with a PC and then looked for components they could take out, we started with a bare monitor and asked what we would need to add to create a working thin-client terminal. The Nivo was a specialised electronic unit carefully optimised to the task of pulling pixels over a network!
