Hello, I am Michael C. Barnes, President and Director of nOrhTec. I'm here to tell you about the nOrhTec MicroServer.

The Microserver GP can be thought of as portable I/O. The Microserver GP provides a very cost-effective solution to buildout corporate, home and enterprise networks. Today's large servers are housed behind glass rooms that have specially controlled environments and a staff of professional capable of handling almost any emergency. Today's networks require flexibility and mobility. While the corporate databases and large servers are housed in the data center, organizations find themselves needing to deploy applications well beyond headquarters to remote locations and even provide the means for customers and employees to access information from anywhere.

Rendered Images of the GP+ (click to enlarge)

NorhTec Microservers can turn your organization's sales and support staff into a better organized SWAT team. Today's organizations have built highly effective professionals and given them tools to be productive. Future success will depend on creating effective, efficient, mobile and coordinated teams. In the past, organizations focused on portable productivity tools such as laptops and PDAs. As companies build teams, they will not only have to deploy devices such as cell phones, pagers, PDAs and laptops, they will have to deploy networks as well.

Generating responses to requests for proposals or generating quotes requires teams of professionals. Each of these professionals need to work in a coordinated way to be effective. NorhTec Microservers are the first servers designed to allow the building blocks of a network to be portable. The GP (general purpose) version is designed to put datacenter server functionality in a form factor that is small enough to meet highly mobile applications such as airline, ship, defense, law enforcement, wearable computers or small office home office (SOHO).

The Microserver GP can act as a gateway/firewall to broadband networks such as cable modems or ADSL. Each Microserver GP includes two 10/100BaseT Ethernet Interface so that Microservers can plug in wherever there is a 10/100BaseT connection. NorhTec Microserver GP can be used to keep networks running 24 hours a day. The typical PC can use up to 300 Watts while the Microserver GP only uses five Watts. The GP Microserver can keep your networks up and running while personal computers are turned off to conserve electricity.

The Microserver GP+ outputs to any standard NTSC or PAL video interface. Here we have, for the first time, a device that provides everything needed to set up video teleconferencing that is small enough to carry in the palm of your hand. The NorhTec Microserver GP is ideal for dedicated network applications such as security systems, biometric controlled access points, video teleconferencing, gateways and firewalls for remote locations or homes. NorhTec Microservers are ideally suited to be integrated into smart buildings.

NorhTec Microservers can be easily converted into low-cost wearable computers by adding external batteries and overhead displays. The GP Microserver can easily be integrated as part of an embedded solution. The NorhTec Microserver GP is actually less expensive than embedded boards - it is the first general purpose embedded computer.

NorhTec has a variety of packaged solutions — many of them featuring Open Source applications. Whether you want a firewall, gateway, mail server, server appliance, MP3 jukebox or file and print server, NorhTec MIcroserver can configure the GP Microserver to meet your requirements.

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