Why are Tadpole Products such a Great Solution for Your Health Care Network?

Health care networks typically have large and diverse populations of users requiring extensive IT support requirements. Many of these users perform time-critical activities and are on the move for much of the day. Additionally, computing assets are deployed in a variety of settings including: wards, extended-care facilities, labs, offices, etc. In short, health care networks are complex, widely distributed, and have a very diversified set of highly mobile users.

Any high value, sustainable computing solution for the health care environment must provide extremely high levels of security, easy manageability, rock solid reliability, and flexible mobility. To attain these goals, our solution centers on secure ultra-thin client desktops and ultra-secure network gateway servers that provide controlled access to multiple security domains over wired and wireless networks.

• With Tadpole Comet ultra-thin clients, users can be given complete portability of their computer sessions. With simple but secure authentication protocols users can move seamlessly from one Tadpole ultra-thin client to another without losing any state of the application. This can be as simple as removing the users CAC card from one system and inserting it into another. Moreover, additional authentication from username/password and/or biometric devices will be used to securely authenticate users and meet HIPPA privacy requirements.
• With centralized management, users no longer need local system administration for their personal mobile computers. Ultra-thin clients provide zero-administration locally and move the system administration to a Network Operations Center (NOC) that can be hundreds or thousands of miles away. System administrators can easily deploy new patient care applications to the NOC servers and thereby effectively distribute them to thousands of clients.
• User support is vastly simplified as IT supports a common hardware configuration and all software management occurs at the NOC where just a few IT specialists are needed to manage thousands of clients.
• High 99.xx levels of reliability and quality of service are attainable because our ultra-thin client platforms regularly achive hundreds of thousands hours mean time between failure. In additon, they are extremely quiet, an important consideration in this environment.
• Since all our products are mobile, IT connectivity with patient rooms, labs, and health care campuses is easily achived. This enables flexible deployment and reconfiguration of computing resources as needs dictate.
• Intellectual property and regulatory data capture/control policies are easily implemented and enforced as all application level activity occurs at the server and not at independent desktops

Tadpole computing solutions have been deployed in a wide variety of markets and industries. Having established itself as the leading provider to government and military customers, we are expanding our reach to many other markets as well. As a result, we are now poised to become a market leader across a wide variety of markets and applications. We invite you to explore our products listed below and then contact us to learn more about our health care environment computing solutions.

Bullfrog™/Bullfrog EXP Tadpole BULLFROG notebooks are the most powerful Solaris notebooks money can buy. Ideal as a desktop replacement or as a portable server for rapid deployment in military and disaster recovery applications. BULLFROG notebooks offer uncompromised levels of performance in a fraction of the space required by alternative solutions. Using genuine UltraSPARC processors running the Solaris Operating Environment from Sun Microsystems, BULLFROG notebooks come with an impressive set of standard features and are guaranteed to be 100% binary compatible with any of the 13,000 Solaris applications. Comprising the following features, the BULLFROG is ideal to run the most demanding technical computing and enterprise class applications. 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC® IIIi processor Up to 8GB DRAM (Bullfrog EXP); Up to 16GB DRAM (Bullfrog Dual Processor) Large 17.1" SXGA TFT LCD Display Full Length, 66 MHz, 64 -bit PCI Expansion Slot Dual 2.5" High Performance Disk Drives Integrated DVD/CD-RW Drive BULLFROG notebooks come pre-installed with the Solaris Operating Environment and StarOffice™ For more details, click here.

SPARCbook® World-class UNIX® expertise from the only company with over 20 years experience as a pioneering technology innovator and industry leader in UNIX hardware. Tadpole computers offer unrivaled worldwide customer support, engineering expertise, and product configurations to meet end user requirements. The SPARCbook, the ultimate performance product in a long line of portable workstations, packs the power and performance of a Sun™ workstation into a compact notebook design. Powered by Sun's latest generation UltraSPARC™ processors running the Sun Solaris Operating Environment, the SPARCbook is the ultimate performance solution for traveling professionals who need the added productivity that comes with portable workstation class performance. Comprising the following features, the SPARCbook is ideal to run technical computing and enterprise class applications. 650MHz UltraSPARC® processors One or two removable disk drives (up to 160GB HDD capacity) Low profile & light weight A massive 4GB of DRAM Read-Write CD-ROM and DVD combo drive Extensive interfaces, including dual Ethernet & PCCard SPARCbooks come pre-installed with the Solaris 9 Operating Environment and StarOffice™ 7.0 For more details, click here.

Viper With Sun's new 1.2GHz UltraSPARC® IIIi processor and the Solaris™ Operating Environment VIPER is the most powerful workstation-class notebook in the 64-bit space. VIPER comes pre-installed with the latest productivity applications from the Sun Java Desktop System, including e-mail, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and web browser. This powerful notebook makes an ideal upgrade for workstation users to benefit from mobile productivity and the possibility of consolidating two or more systems into one. Comprising the following features, the Viper is ideal to run workstation applications. 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC® IIIi processors 15" SXGA+ TFT LCD Integrated CD-RW/DVD or DVD-RW Up to 100GB internal disk storage 100% Solaris binary compatible 802.11b wireless networking Up to 2GB DRAM For more details, click here.

Comet 15 Comet computers are 100% compatible with Sun Ray™ ultra-thin client from Sun Microsystems, while adding mobility & wireless networking. Comet computers share a chassis with the SPARCLE product family (no longer available), giving users interchangeability between batteries and chargers. Since Comet notebooks are un-tethered and completely stateless, they can be assigned to users "on-the-fly". This allows a company to have fewer units — only as many as there are active people. Comet notebooks have very long battery life (6-8 hours), and can be used anywhere within range of a wireless access point. Like all Sun Ray™ thin clients, they support smart cards for secure identification & global session management. Sun Ray ultra-thin clients have no local processing — everything is done on the server, including backup. Sun Ray™ ultra-thin clients are "plug-and-work", no software loading or updating, and no system crashes. Windows® may be opened to Solaris™, Linux and Windows applications (using third party tools). Comet notebooks come with these features: Stateless - smart card security & identity Wireless 802.11a/b/g with optional FIPS 140-2 encryption Integrated VPN client compatible with Cisco and Nortel VPN servers (optional) Long battery life (>5 hours) Fast charge: 1 hour in use CD-quality audio in/out with integrated stereo speakers