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News Release from: Fairchild | Subject: SRS
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 January 2006
Fairchild launches first truly
multi-user PC
Fairchild have launched their SRS, 'Shared Resource System'.
Fairchild have launched their SRS, 'Shared Resource System' Fairchild's SRS enables up to four users to share a single PC, running Windows 2000 Professional or XP Professional/Home Editions, totally independently of each other, and with absolutely no adverse affects on speed or privacy
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fairchild's SRS promises to change the face of IT for schools and government departments, through to SMEs and multi-national corporations.
The Fairchild SRS allows PC users to be distanced from their PCs, leaving only their keyboards, monitors, and mice on their desks.
The computers can be locked away up to 100 metres from desktop areas, safe and secure and totally tamper-proof in the IT department.
Each user is connected to the SRS using existing CAT5 network cabling with access to all multi-user applications, whilst sharing printers and like resources.
Another major benefit, considered by many to be of greatest significance, is that centrally located and maintained systems can easily be updated with the latest O/S, applications and hardware upgrades.
This allows entities to update all their systems globally.
Apart from the initial capital saving, support and maintenance costs are reduced along with the additional benefit of reductions in end user downtime and work disruption.
Fairchild claim their SRS systems offer the same PC experience as desktops without the noise and heat associated - with up to 84 users being serviced by 21 PC's in a 42u rack, tucked away in the IT department.
"Our Fairchild SRS has a great future".
"Particularly in hostile environments and where cost and support issues are of paramount importance." So says Roger Wildman, Fairchild's MD.
He may well have a point.
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