Veenendaal

The Dutch city of Veenendaal Deploys Fast, Flexible Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, including Fully Integrated Phone System, Powered by Leostream™ Connection Broker and Mitel® Virtual Solutions

The Company

Veenendaal is a municipality in central Netherlands with over 60,000 residents. The city offices employ approximately 500 workers.

The Challenge

The challenge was to provide simultaneous single sign-on to the user’s virtual desktop and phone to mimic the full functionality of a personal fat client and phone system.

Business type: Municipality
Location: Netherlands
Configuration: Mitel Virtual Solutions
 

Customer Needs:

Veenendaal identified end-user productivity and experience as the main objectives when switching to a virtualized environment. One goal was to provide users with the flexibility of using any thin client while still providing fast single sign-on to the desktop environment. A secondary goal was to provide access to Microsoft® Remote Desktop Services sessions for users working remotely from home.

Solution Components:

• Mitel Communications Director (MCD)
• Mitel IP Phones
• Leostrem Connection Broker
• VMware virtualization platform
• Wyse V10L thin clients
• Wyse TCX

Results:

• Convenience of single sign-on access to desktop and phone
• Lowered operational costs
• A deployment of a joint VDI and communications system unique to the market

Veenendaal (PDF 133KB)