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If you currently are using legacy Display Stations and Printers connected to the iSeries or AS/400s in your organization, you are probably considering a move away from SNA and SDLC communications to a pure TCP/IP connectivity infrastructure. There are many good reasons to evaluate this move:
Is there a downside? Well, if you have Twinax
devices connected to your iSeries
and are thinking of moving to a LAN environment, you have a lot to think about.
For example, will your trusty Twinax IPDS printers continue to perform? Will your data
entry personnel continue to be productive? Will your network be as reliable? Can
you justify the potentially high cost of re-wiring an entire
facility? Following is a discussion of four different options available to you. Click the links to learn the pros and cons of each option, and to discover which solution is right for your organization:
Option 1: Replace Twinax equipment with PCs and LAN based printers
Solution 1: Better On-Line Solutions offers two TCP/IP-based software solutions that meet the host access and TN5250e display/printing emulation requirements of this option:
Option 2: Replace
the dumb Twinax terminals with Ethernet terminals and use a twinax to Ethernet
Protocol Converter for Twinax printer(s)
Solution 2: Better On-Line Solutions offers Ethernet text-based terminals – supporting AS/400 style 122-key keyboards and an upgrade path to BOSâNOVA thin clients – and an e-TwinPrint (Reverse Protocol Converter), to support a smooth transition from Twinax:
Option 3: Replace Twinax terminals with Thin Clients
Solution 3:
Better
On-Line Solutions offers two different thin client models, both include an
embedded browser, TN5250e/TN3270e emulation, and an RDP client for Windows
Terminal Server and an ICA client for Citrix Metaframe:
Option 4: Preserve Twinax devices and integrate them into your IP network with a pure IP controller.
Solution 4:
Better
On-Line Solutions offers the only true TCP/IP controller in the industry,
allowing enterprises to leverage existing Twinax equipment while ensuring
bandwidth efficiency, optimum network performance, and built-in disaster
recovery tools.
For more information about these solutions or to discuss
the specific needs of your enterprise, please contact us at: (800) 597-2525 (toll free) ♦ (908) 688-8100 International
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