Technology Innovator

With the headquarters of Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor all less than a mile away, StarNet's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California are located in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

StarNet was a pioneer in using the Internet as an integral part of its marketing, sales and customer support programs. Even in StarNet's early years, co-founders Richard Montgomery, Steven Schoch and John Yin recognized the Internet as a powerful medium for allowing customers to obtain product information, evaluate software products through electronic downloading, place orders and provide on-line customer support. Today, a large percentage of StarNet's sales are generated via the on-line store and the on-line quoting system.

On the product side, StarNet has a strong history of technical innovations in the x server market, including: the first to integrate a Secure Shell (SSH) connect option to enable customers to run sessions to a remote host securely over their internal networks and via the internet; the first to create a 64 bit x server to facilitate AMD's Opteron computers; and the first x server to include the ability to run multiple XDMCP sessions and offering OpenGL support with local hardware acceleration. Today, X-Win32’s 3D rendering is the fastest in the industry.

StarNet's recent introduction of X-Win32 LIVE Edition provides the first commercial solution to the PC X server industry to offer the ability to reconnect to remote sessions after a Windows, power or network crash, or to Suspend & Resume remote X Windows sessions. These attributes provide dramatic efficiency improvements for most users. In addition, X-Win32 LIVE Edition provides high-speed performance over slow connections and even session portability (start on one PC, resume on another) while vastly reducing network traffic.

StarNet has also developed a unique self-monitoring concurrent network licensing technology that does not require a dedicated license server. Network licenses can be installed on any Windows machine on a network and the licensing technology will allow up to all of the licensed number of users simultaneous access to X-Win32. This feature offers customers significant savings on a per-seat basis.

Other X-Win32-Only features include session folder that enables users to organize their session as well as the Session password feature that allows users to quickly change the log-in and passwords for all session in a particular folder. This is particularly time-saving at companies where server passwords are changed frequently. Also very productive is the IPsmarts feature that makes it very simple to connect to a remote host over the Internet from behind a DSL/Cable router (with NAT firewall).