NBC ''Gets in Shape'' for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 With Wyse Winterm Thin Clients.Business Editors and Entertainment/High-Tech Writers SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2002 Using Reliable Winterm Thin-Client Devices to Edit and File Stories, NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. Won't Get Snowed In Covering the Olympic Winter Games
Wyse(R) Technology today announced the company's Winterm(TM) thin clients are being used by NBC in connection with its coverage of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 in Salt Lake City. NBC has chosen to "get thin" for the Olympics by deploying Wyse Winterm thin clients instead of personal computers or laptops to help on and off-air staff deliver fast-breaking news of Olympic events as it happens. Whether used for covering stories of this year's Olympic luge luge (l  zh), a type of small sled on which one or two persons, lying face up, slide feet first down snowy hillsides or down steeply banked, curving, iced chutes similar to those used in or speed skating speed skatingSport of racing on ice skates. The blade of the speed skate is longer and thinner than that of the hockey or figure skate. Two types of track are used in international competition. competitions or any other event, Wyse Winterm thin clients perform faster than a four-man bobsled team on a medal run, while providing increased security of information and simplified remote management of desktops. "With more than 180 events taking place at the Olympic Winter Games of 2002, NBC cannot afford desktop challenges that would prevent our reporters in the field from delivering timely coverage," said Sally Hughes, project manager, NBC Production Systems. "Wyse Technology's secure, managed thin-client solutions were instrumental in helping us cover the 2000 Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee. in Sydney Australia and the 2000 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. With the ability to handle remote configurations and upgrades, Wyse thin clients will help us deliver coverage of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 while minimizing overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. and performance concerns for technology." The Wyse Winterm 3000 series terminals, utilizing Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0 and Windows 2000 server edition, will enable NBC to connect directly to the Avstar newsroom system and OMAR Omar, caliph Omar: see Umar, caliph. Omar, in the Bible Omar (ō`mär), in the Bible, duke of Edom. video libraries to compose, review and edit stories for the on-air staff. NBC will also have access to Microsoft Office and email applications through the Winterm thin clients. In addition, the sleek, durable Winterm units allow for a greater number of terminals in a confined space. "In an environment where timeliness and deadlines are crucial to business, it is important to have a desktop device that can perform flawlessly in even the harshest of conditions -- like in twenty degree weather at a downhill ski race or bobsled competition," said Brad Rowland, director of product management at Wyse Technology. "Wyse Winterm terminals offer the security, manageability and affordability desired by our broad spectrum of thin-client customers." ABOUT WYSE TECHNOLOGY Wyse Technology is the worldwide leader in secure, managed thin clients, and is driving the Post-PC Era for business. Wyse's Winterm line of thin clients is changing the desktop landscape by helping people communicate and access information easily and affordably, regardless of where it resides. Through its channel of Authorized Winterm Partners and well-known original equipment manufacturers' (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) labels worldwide, Wyse has helped CIOs worldwide reduce the costs and complexity of modern IT infrastructures and increase security by eliminating the reliance on personal computers as the only desktop device for business. The company maintains headquarters in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. and Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com or call 1-800-GET-WYSE. Wyse(R) and WY-(R) are registered trademarks, and Winterm(TM) is a trademark of Wyse Technology Inc. Other product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Editor's Note: The appropriate full company name is "Wyse Technology Inc." rather than "Wyse Technologies." |
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