London, England, 16th October 2008 - Netvoyager plc, a leading
manufacturer of Linux and Windows based thin client devices wins
"Innovative New Application Solution" category led by
our channel partner ICT Networks Limited.
ICT Networks and Netvoyager beat 3 other very strong contenders
(Anglia Business Solutions Limited with their customer Produce World
who is also a Netvoyager product user, ANS Group plc with their
customer Sheffield Hospital and Teneo with their customer NPS Group).
The judges were impressed by the simplicity of the solution and the empowerment
it provides educational professionals and their students. "We are
delighted to be associated with forward thinking teams at ICT Networks
and Haywood High School who deserve this award", said Jamil Aboulzelof,
Netvoyager CEO.
Netvoyager thin clients were deployed at Haywood High School as part
of their ICT strategy for internal use as well as remote access to the
school portal and applications by students at their homes.
ICT Networks, Haywood ICT team and Netvoyager worked closely to develop
an innovative solution that changes the way ICT delivers school educational
content internally as well as beyond the school parameter.
Overview of the Solution: Haywood High School and Engineering
college, an award winning and forward thinking teaching organisation,
has always delivered high standards to its 1000 plus pupils. One
of its objectives for 2007/2008 is to extend the learning environment
across its campus as well as outside the school perimeter by giving
students access to the e-learning school portal.
Background: The brief given was to provide the school with
a solution that extends the number of desktops at the school and
allow some 250 students who had no access to a home PC to connect
to the schools e-learning portal. The school also wanted to achieve
the below objectives in addition to the main criteria listed above,
which included:
+ Annual IT cost saving across the site
+ Fast application access over low bandwidth links
+ Real time access to student records
+ Centralised IT management of all desktop assets
+ Increase staff and student productivity through IT
+ Reduce support overhead
+ e-Learning strategy extension
+ Digital Inclusion solution that can be achieved without the PC
and specialised network capital expenditure.
+ Green IT Framework
Proposed Solution: The solution involved centralised servers
and distributed thin client devices. ICT Networks demonstrated Netvoyager
thin clients and Citrix Presentation Server which delivered all
the basic criteria and even more extended features without the compromise.
Netvoyager thin clients embedded browsers were also used to access
data in a controlled environment.
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