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Education Solution

PCSTATION enables any organization to harness the untapped power of existing PCs so that computing access is affordable and efficient. Thousands of schools and businesses around the world have used PCSTATION to realize up to a tenfold reduction in their computing costs while delivering wider computing access to their students and employees.

Education Solution -- PCSTATION enables schools and colleges to share the power of a regular PC with up to 30 students at the same time.

Whether you are part of a large school system with tens of thousands of students or a small private school with just a few hundred students, you face some daunting challenges with managing PCs in computer labs or classrooms for students and teachers:

• Tight budgets result in outdated PCs or fewer PCs. Either way, the students and teachers suffer.
• PC management is a nightmare. Managing dozens of PCs per school is a daunting challenge for schools with limited IT personnel.
• Limited PC lab space and electrical wiring limit computing access to more students.
PCSTATION's series can address all of these challenges using a lesson we all learned in the first day of school -- sharing. By sharing the untapped processing power of a PC, up to 30 students can simultaneously use that PC. So a 60 seat PC lab only requires 2 PCs.

How does it work?

The access terminal is connected to standard peripherals like the keyboard, monitor and mouse. A second PCSTATION can be added to the same PC, so that up to 30 students (1 on the host PC, 29 on each of the PCSTATION) can share a PC. Like all PCSTATION products, the PCSTATION works with existing PC applications and delivers full PC performance.

The PCSTATION has the option of including NControl, which allows teachers and administrators to monitor what students are doing on their terminals. Teachers can also send warning messages and even take control of students computing environments if they use improper applications like instant messaging.