Inferno Walk-Through [Image] [Image] -------------------- The Complete Platform The Information Dial Tone The Evolution The End-to-End Solution Your Solution ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFERNO: The Complete Platform for Developing and Deploying Intelligent Devices in any Networked Environment The Inferno real-time network operating system provides network service providers, device manufacturers, and application developers a small, secure, and efficient network and programming environment. Designed to harness the power of any network and enable intelligent devices, Inferno leverages an organization's existing hardware and software investments and significantly reduces client system administration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFERNO: The Information Dial Tone The vision of low-cost computing environments will become a reality when the network becomes as easy to use as the telephone, with connectivity as universal as telephony. Inferno makes this vision a reality. With Inferno, any network device can interface with any other device, machine, or network over any operating system. Inferno allows users access to familiar and useful tools everywhere. Programmers design and implement Inferno applications only once with no worries of the underlying platform. How is true connectivity accomplished? Inferno provides a network abstraction layer to offer a level of portability and programmability unmatched by other operating systems. Inferno provides true network portability - it includes not only a virtual machine that provides portability across platforms, it also includes a virtual operating system that provides virtual network abstraction through a common network interface. This unique feature opens up a new range of publications on low-cost devices such as PDAs, smart phones, and set-top boxes by leveraging the tremendous resources of existing networks and significantly reducing the burden on the device. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFERNO: The Evolution of Client Server Computing to True Distributed Computing Inferno enables optimum network management decisions because Inferno is truly a Distributed Computing environment. This means that Inferno applications can execute where most efficient and can utilize any resource throughout the network. This is in stark contrast to traditional client - server environments where applications must download from servers to clients and execute at the client. Inferno accomplishes true Distributed Computing by embracing the concept of a distributed namespace. Inferno applications view all resources as files within a hierarchical file system. This enables applications to construct their own namespace consisting of any resources throughout the entire network. Employing the Inferno namespace feature, devices can access applications irrespective of local resources. Inferno's distributed nature allows network managers the much needed flexibility to execute applications most effectively. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFERNO: The Pieces that form the End-to-End Solution The Inferno environment was designed with a network infrastructure in mind. Inferno is not dependent on local resources, supports robust applications, and maximizes the usage of the network. This is accomplished with a minimal memory footprint -- about 1 megabyte runs the entire Inferno Operating System including applications. Additionally, security and control over resource sharing are implemented as protocols in the core of Inferno's technology. Inferno is a distributed operating system that operates either as a standalone on economical hardware (native environment) or as an application on top of conventional systems (emulation environment). This open design allows applications to run in either environment, with no difference in run-time performance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFERNO: Your Solution Inferno is a secure, network-ready operating system that is small, portable, and programmable. Inferno offers customers the ability to: * Converge technologies while minimizing cost. * Develop solutions that enable low-cost, intelligent devices capable of evolving as new services and applications emerge. * Broaden the availability of exciting, new interactive services without reengineering programs for every environment. * Pursue new services that can be offered to all customers while minimizing additional network investments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [What's New?] [Image] [Download] [Support] [Contacts] [Home] [Image] Send comments to: infernoweb@lucent.com Copyright ©1997, Lucent Technologies. [Image]