TCBM- Thin client bandwidth manager

It is impressing. When looking at the competition, all our competitors making thin clients, try really hard to beat each other with new terminals having lower prices, higher specs and new functionality
So do we!…and even more

TCBM make all terminals, no matter brand, run more stable and better. NEXterminal, as an innovative company, was the first company in Europe to make Thin client laptops, now we are the first thin client brand to make thin clients run better… all clients, from all vendors.

Most thin clients are located in branch offices, due to the nature of their low bandwidth requirements. Unfortunately branch offices does not have “unlimited” bandwith to the Citrix/terminal servers at the main office. The available bandwidth at each location has to be shared among the users (and devices) on the location. Not all traffic traverses to to main office, some goes to Skype, some to VoIP, some goes to news sites, and some for downloading “all kind of files” from the public internet.

If just one user uses widely available download tools, uses Skype (as a server), or a thin client user starts seeing a movie, or accidently get a runaway flash browser, all thin clients as well as VoIP will immediately notice this in “slow image drawings, keyboard delays or echoing/scratching in their VoIP phones”.

Any network administrator would in normal circumstances, notice the line was saturated (overbooked with network packets), and consider an upgrade of the local internet connection. The sad truth is, that you will probably (unless you have a huge amount of money) never have enough network capacity (or stability), no matter how big your internet line gets.

We have seen customers, purchasing new terminals to “hopefully” solve connection/disconnetion problems. We have seen them moving from a 2Mbit line to a 8Mbit line to a 34Mbit line with significant monthly increase in costs, not solving the real problem…”Users and their behavior”.

Any network administrator would then say, hey we use a packeteer or Exinda box. Yes this migth solve the problem, but if you have 40-100 locations to install and configure a packeteer box, not only will your wallet be empty, but so will you “social account” with you partner be as well.. it simply take too much time.

The NEXterminal Thin Client Bandwidth Manager is the right solution, it works in “transparent mode” and only needs to have 2 things set up. Your upload and download speed… that is it. It will take you about 5 minutes to install the device from unpacking to a running installation.

The NEXterminal TCBM shares the available bandwidth among the devices in the network, that is printers , PC’s , thin clients and other IP based devices , such as VoIP phones, Credit card terminals etc. As long as no ip address is contributing to network saturation, nobody will ever notice you purchased a NEXterminal TCBM. In other words people will notice that something has happened, they cannot describe it, but something has definitely happened.

So what did happen?.The TCBM did “bandwidth limit” the devices that was saturating the internet line, and is now creating acceptable response times for all devices. Maybe the user utilizing all the bandwidth before may notice a “slower” line, but for sure he is not destroying the life for the rest of the employees.

What is the benefit compared to Exinda or Packteer?

Well these are really not to be compared rwith TCBM ( apples and pie’s). But if you want us to say something it is like this:

• We have a 5 minute installation
• We do not require periodic analysis
• We do not need to care about protocols
• We do not need to do packet inspection
• We do not need a expert to configure, anyone can do it.
• The return of investment is “a sure thing”, as solves the real problem, without requiring expensive installation.
• It won’t steal you time with 1000 useless statistics reports
• Stable and responsive network in minutes.

just call us at +45 70 230 920 and get a free trial.