VXL Instruments to supply thin clients to Panalpina

BANGALORE: Panalpina World Transport (India) Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary

of the Switzerland-based freight-forwarding group, has chosen Bangalore based

VXL Instruments Ltd to supply thin clients for their offices in India, Mainland

China and Hong Kong. VXL Instruments bagged the order in the face of stiff

competition from other international thin-client majors. "Panalpina has

embarked on implementing a thin-client strategy at all its 292 offices across 6

continents in 64 countries around the world," said Markus Mucke, MD of

Panalpina India.






Panalpina is a forwarding and logistics group with focus on airfreight and
seafreight. As a part of its strategy to globally expand its communication

network, Panalpina decided to install thin-client technology at all its

branches. After setting up Panalpina India, which is headquartered at Delhi, it

began to evaluate thin-clients that are suitable to the Indian environment and

the prevailing power conditions and chose VXL's Winlinx Pro.






NK Rajashekaran-Vice-President, Marketing, VXL, said, "Our thin-client
device uses very little bandwidth, since it only sends a bit-map image down the

line. The Winlinx-Pro is an economic model at 27 to 30 users."






The first implementation of the Winlinx thin-client server was at the Panalpina
offices in China and Hong Kong. When finished, Panalpina will be operating

without a hard disk or floppy disk. Its offices in India will soon replicate the

idea. Winlinx Pro, is a thin-client networking client, for use with multi-user

versions of Windows NT. Using a Windows based application server to both store

the data and to centrally run the programs, Winlinx thin-clients become users of

the server, rather like ASCII and ANSI terminals with Unix servers. This is

possible by using the latest enhanced, fully multi-user version of MS WinNT

Terminal Server Edition and Citrix Systems Inc's ICA protocol extension called

MetaFrame.