Thin Clients Provide Anytime Anywhere Learning

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Thin Clients Provide Anytime Anywhere Learning

“ The use of the thin clients for home use has proved a fantastic success ” commented Andi Tudor-Nash of Haywood High School Stoke on Trent. The School were looking for a home access solution to enable pupils to use their elearning portal for a project funded by the West Midlands Regeneration Fund and turned to IT provider ICT Networks.

The brief given to the company was to provide the school with a solution that would allow some 250 students who had no access to a home PC to connect to the schools elearning portal. ICT Networks decided to provide a thin client solution using Netvoyager thin clients, Citrix Terminal Services Software and HP Blade Servers.

The Netvoyager thin client is a standalone web access machine meaning that the user can browse the web without having to access the school server. However if the user wishes to use applications or access curriculum software then they must connect to the school portal. Software such as Microsoft Encarta with full motion video and Macromedia suite including products such as Dreamweaver, function excellently on a thin client network. The use of Citrix software to run the terminal sessions means that programs do not freeze if bandwidth availability fluctuates, Citrix will compensate for the change and the media stream may skip a frame but it will not freeze which can be an issue outside of a Citrix environment.

The system is powered by the HP Blade series of servers. A server blade is an evolution of the traditional rackmounted server. Server blades are essentially server cards that share a common enclosure. Each HP server blade has the standard features such as processors, memory and network interfaceconnections plus the innovation common to many HP ProLiant and Integrity servers that make them the world’s most manageable, reliable, and easy-to-service platforms.

“There has been a great demand for the thin clients” commented Andi “and because you can access the portal and run terminal sessions on standard laptops the staff find it a fantastic resource as well”.

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