Case Study: Ayrshire College achieves a flexible, energy-efficient VDI campus with IGEL thin clients

Ayrshire College - Customer Case Study

Ayrshire College, home to 5,500 students and 338 staff and recently relocated to a new £53 million campus, needed a flexible, environmentally friendly IT solution that fit a restricted budget and a tight deployment window. To avoid installing traditional desktops and to reuse existing laptops, the College chose IGEL—deploying IGEL UD3 thin clients and the IGEL Universal Desktop Converter (UDC) alongside a Citrix XenDesktop VDI platform.

IGEL supplied UD3 thin clients for 12 classrooms and UDC software to convert 400 laptops into Linux-based thin clients, integrated with Citrix VDI. The rollout was completed in minutes per device and within a two-week window, delivering quicker application start-up, extended laptop battery life to cover a full teaching day, reduced power use, easier remote management via IGEL’s tools, and broader student access across campus—benefiting all 5,500 students and enabling faster, more flexible teaching.

Ayrshire College

David Keenan

Team Leader