Supported PC X Servers

Recon-X’s user-interface is designed to operate seamlessly with the top three PC X servers which together cover more than 90% of the commercial PC X user community:

• StarNet’s X-Win32
• Hummingbird Exceed
• WRQ’s Reflection X

Supported Host Platforms:

Recon-X Release 1.0 can be installed on:

• Sun Solaris 8, 9 & 10
• SuSE 9.2 & 9.3
• Red Hat Enterprise 3 & 4
• Red Hat Fedora Core 3 & 4

How Recon-X Works

Recon-X has client and server components that handle the X11 traffic generated by the PC X server on the Windows machine and the X application on the UNIX/Linux host. When the user initiates a suspend command, Recon-X closes the connection between the PC X server and the remote host. But at the same time it keeps the connection between the server component (proxy server) and the X application open.

The Resume command simply re-opens the connection to the PC X server so that the application can once again be displayed on the Windows PC. Even an unexpected event, such as a PC hardware/software crash or a network disconnect will cause the Recon-X server component to put the application in the suspend mode so the user can reconnect to it after rebooting his PC or reconnecting to the network.

Thanks to advanced compression and other efficiencies in the X11 traffic, Recon-X vastly reduces the amount of X11 traffic when compared to a regular PC X server session. Recon-X allows PC X server users to effectively connect to remote servers over slow Internet connections, such as DSL, Cable or even dial up. So you can start a session from your PC at work, suspend it and resume from a home PC.

Taking X Servers to a New Level of Productivity
Recon-X truly revolutionizes PC X servers, giving them features and performance capabilities users have been longing for since these products first came on the market in the 1980s. And at a cost of $79 per user per year or less (depending on volume), Recon-X offers an extremely affordable add-on solution to PC X servers costing between $250 and $900.

The key features offered by Recon-X include:

• Suspend & Resume -- For security and other reasons, many companies prohibit users from leaving their computers running overnight, or even during lunch breaks and meetings. Recon-X allows users to simply suspend the remote sessions on the host, turn off their workstation and resume the sessions when they reboot their office system.
  
  
• Session Recovery – Should the Windows machine or the PC X server crash, or if the network gets disconnected unexpectedly, Recon-X sessions are not terminated like standard PC X server sessions. Recon-X’s server component keeps the sessions alive and the user simply reconnects to the sessions once he/she has restarted the computer or reconnected to the network.
  
  
• Session Mobility -- After suspending your sessions on the remote host, you may resume them from any other Windows computer that has Recon-X as well as X-Win32, Exceed or Reflection X available. This includes computers in conference rooms elsewhere in the company, or even computers not connected directly to the company network, such as a PC at home.
  
  
• Slow Network – High Performance - Until now, it was largely impractical to connect to graphics X applications or X desktops over most Internet connections. But advanced compression and other efficiencies built into Recon-X allow you to work at near LAN speed over VPN or direct Internet connections.
  
  
• Easy User-Interface – Recon-X offers a simple, intuitive user interface that makes setting up remote sessions simple.
  
  
• Chose Compression Level – Recon-X allows the user to select a level of data compression for the traffic between the Windows and Unix machines. "Modem" would provide the highest level of compression, while LAN would not have any compression. While performance increases with the compression level, the visual quality typically goes down.