The Sun Ray Operating Software 11.0 release for Sun Ray Clients is required for the following Sun Ray Software 5.3 features:
Improved video playback on Sun Ray 3 Series Clients
Video playback using Windows Media Player has been improved on Sun Ray 3 Series Clients, including high definition video playback on Sun Ray 3 Plus Clients. See Video Acceleration in the Administration Guide.
Improved Adobe Flash playback
Adobe Flash playback using Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 has been improved, including larger resolutions and scalability of deployments. High definition Adobe Flash playback is now available on Sun Ray 3 Plus Clients. These improvements require the Adobe Flash acceleration component to be installed on the Windows system. See Video Acceleration in the Administration Guide.
802.1x authentication support on Sun Ray Clients
802.1x authentication is now available for Sun Ray Clients, which can be configured through a Sun Ray Client's firmware. See 802.1x Authentication in the Administration Guide.
Enhanced smart card services
A new Sun Ray Software smart card bus protocol, called scbus v2, provides extended APDU support (ISO-7816-4 2005 rev), smart card services for Oracle Virtual Desktop Clients, protocol and parameters selection (PPS) for Sun Ray 3 Series Clients, and compliance with the PC/SC 2.0 IFD Handler API. See Smart Card Services in the Administration Guide.
The Sun Ray Operating Software 11.0 release provides faster USB mass storage performance and a broader choice of USB peripherals, which was also included in the Sun Ray Software 5.2.5 release. Improvements include mass storage read/write speeds up to 5x faster than previous releases on Sun Ray 3 Series Clients, access to an unprecedented broad range of USB devices (listed at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sunrayproducts/docs/index.html), and a tuned and optimized USB and network stack to minimize network latency.