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| Installed LTSP Network: |
| LTSP Application Servers starting at: $500.00 |
| Workstations: $150/seat, used |
| plus wiring costs at $35.00 / hr + materials |
Affordable Networks
for Home and Office
At RCK Computer Services, we offer the LTSP Server, to provide affordable computing for everyone in your office, shop or household.
The Linux Terminal Server Project is based on the premise that low-cost work stations, networked with an application server with sufficient computing power makes a lot more sense in its use of both computing and financial resources. The LTSP server will boot multiple 'thin clients' -- machines stripped of their hard drives. It does not take a lot of computing power to provide for a client machine. Low cost, recycled processors with a video, sound and network card will do the job. And in fact, given the under utilization of processing power demanded by the average user, late model recycled computers with moderate memory are capable of supporting a small home or office network of four or eight clients.
While RCK has never installed an LTSP network this large, the projects' documentation reports that 'It's not unusual to have 50 workstations, all running Mozilla and OpenOffice from a Dual P4-2.4 with 4GB of ram. We know this works. In fact, the load-average is rarely above 1.0!'
The server can be sized to fit the needs of your network. But the client costs remain fixed at $150.00 a seat (for used equipment) for a sound, video, internet enabled workstation with transparent user access to any application installed on your server.
If security is your concern, know that the linux permissions system allows for discrete delegation of just the amount of access to the data and applications which your users need, without compromising their data to unwanted access by other users.
And best of all, the server-client architecture of an LTSP network means that you have only one machine to secure, serve, maintain and upgrade. While you use used, otherwise obsolete equipment or even new affordable and space-saving thin clients on your desktops.
Give us a call. Let us quote your next network project.
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