6th August, 2007 - London, Netvoyager plc, the leading
UK manufacturer of thin client devices and software, are pleased to announce
the selection of Netvoyager thin clients technology by Haywood High School
as the core solution to provide access to their educational portal and curriculum
to its pupils in the classrooms and at their homes.
Haywood High School and Engineering college, an award winning and forward
thinking teaching organisation, has always delivered high standards to
its 1000 plus pupils. This is demonstrated by the comments of the Ofsted
Inspector in May 2007: "Students said what a special place this school
is and inspectors agree. This is a good and improving school with some
outstanding features.
Haywood High School and Engineering College is a stimulating learning
community where students can flourish as a result of the huge commitment
of staff to the personal development of all students. Staff and students
take great pride in their school and this is shown in the high quality
of displays of students work around the buildings and the care shown
to the school environment."
The brief given 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
e-learning portal. Netvoyager solution partner ICT Networks demonstrated
Netvoyager thin clients and Citrix Presentation Server which delivered
all the basic criteria and even more extended features.
The use of the Netvoyager thin clients for home use has proved to
be a fantastic success said ICT team leader Andi Tudor-Nash. "We
were looking for a home access solution to enable our pupils to use our
e-learning portal for a project funded by the West Midlands Regeneration
Fund and approached IT provider ICT Networks who delivered the end-to-end
solution in record time".
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 can connect to the school portal.
Software such as Microsoft Encarta with motion video and Macromedia suite
including products such as Dreamweaver, functioned well on a thin client
and server-based network. The use of Citrix to deliver the applications
mean 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 school
environment.
There has been a great demand for the thin clients commented
Andi and because the pupils can
access the portal and educational software, whilst staff can do same on
their laptops who also find it
a fantastic resource as well. At the same time, making provisioning an
deployment very simple and
easy for my team to support.
About Netvoyager
plc
Netvoyager plc, London - England, is a leading thin client manufacturer
and server-based computing specialist. Established in 1999, Netvoyager
also has strategic alliances with Microsoft, Citrix and Tarantella, the
leaders in server-based computing.
Netvoyager products
and services leverage open technologies and eliminates the costs associated
with traditional PC architectures. Netvoyager enables enterprises to take
advantage of server-based computing (Citrix MetaFrame & Microsoft
Terminal Service) to provide increased flexibility and choice, as well
as lower up-front expenditure and reduced total cost of ownership.
Netvoyager's products enable enterprises to gain control of their desktops
and access mainframe, midrange, UNIX, Linux, Windows and web applications
from a single compact device. More information about Netvoyager plc and
its products can be found at www.netvoyager.co.uk
and can be contacted via email at sales@netvoyager.co.uk.
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