A critical performance analysis of Thin Client platforms

The nature of operation of Thin Client computing makes their performance to be affected by both the quality of the network and the terminals. For the past few years, there are few analyses on the performance of Thin Clients that can produce reliable, valid, and up-to-date results collected in a well designed and evaluated experiment based research. This paper analyses the performance of Thin Clients through experiment based research. The approach is to use benchmark application which is designed specifically for measurement of desktop computers by inserting delays in the visual elements of such benchmark application. In this technique, packet's behavior is measured on the network as the application is executed from the server to a Thin Client. The analysis through measurements of the performance shows that the improvement of computer processing power has a lot of performance metrics and comparing the trend with the results collected nearly seven years ago by previous researchers. Moreover, the bandwidth is found to be the main bottleneck for the performance of Thin Clients while the CPU is of less concern.