 Whether you are part of the school system, tertiary education or a private training facility, you face some daunting challenges with managing PCs in computer labs and classrooms environments.
How would you like to :
- Cut PC acquisition costs by 60%
- Reduce PC equipment and complexity
- Dramatically reduce maintenance costs on software
- Lower electrical consumption by 95%
- Monitor student activity
- Accommodate 30% more students in the same PC lab
Schools and education orgainisations in general often suffer from these problems:
- Budgets are often tight, result in outdated PCs or fewer computers than you optimally would like.
- Management can be a nightmare. Maintaing the operating systems identically the same on all PCs so lessons run smoothly is often difficult.
- Limited space and electrical wiring can overcrowd available desk space.
Our solutions involving thin-client terminals can address all of these challenges using a lesson we all learned in the early days of school - sharing. By sharing the untapped processing power of one or two computers, up to 20 students can simultaneously use those PCs.
By attaching the small thin-client terminal to the back of an LCD screen your complete teaching device takes a fraction of the physical space of a PC.
The thin-client draws a fraction of the power, compared to a PC. Just think of the power savings and reduction in heat generated in the room and savings on air-conditioning.
The cost of thethin-client with a 19" LCD screen, keyboard and mouse about A$1000, making it considerably cheaper than any dedicated PC solution.
But the real advantage in a classroom environment is that you only look after one copy of the software for everyone. No more cloning and imaging hard disks or doing multiple installations of new software you want for a class - you just install one copy on the server. With good imaging backup software you can rebuild the server in minutes if necessary and the whole class then has a fresh PC to work with. |
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