ThinLinc Linux Remote Desktop Server for Education

ThinLinc Remote Desktop Server provides students, teachers, faculty and administrators with easy and secure on demand access to educational material and administrative applications as well as information necessary for continuous learning and other important education activities. For instance, with ThinLinc it is possible to deliver applications and information quickly to any place, over any connection - including low bandwidth and wireless. The ThinLinc solutions also address the special challenges for higher education, with technology to help them manage temporary traffic surges with no problem, ensure that information is kept confidential and extending the life of existing hardware. The result is that schools and universities can function more efficiently and use their limited IT resources more effectively with the ThinLinc Remote Desktop Server.

Education is using the Internet more and more. Whether providing services to the students, managing internal resources and personnel, recruiting or giving classes, higher education is turning to the web to simplify processes and keep costs down. More and more schools are implementing programs for e-learning to extend the reach of the classroom, whether to students across town or across the world. Most students are also using the Internet instead of paper forms to register for courses, apply for student loans and manage other administrative chores. In the same way faculty and employee requirements are tracked through web based human resource applications.

How ThinLinc can help the Education sector:

• Enable easy deployment of administrative applications throughout the university system or school district
• Provide the users with high availability, even during temporary traffic surges, with advanced optimization
• Extend the classroom and give administrators, faculty and students access to the system from outside the campus
• Improve productivity of IT operations with reduced costs
• Ensure data privacy end-to-end
• Provide access to educational applications
• The remote desktop server acts as a bridge between the user and the application servers. In this way the user can have access to the applications best suited for the job, no matter what operating system the application happens to be programmed for. It's easy to mix programs from Linux, Unix and Windows, for instance, on the same desktop.
• Reduce the need for additional hardware by optimizing existing server resources
• Provide robust attack protection to prevent virus and worm attacks from burdening server resources