Nigeria National Information Technology Development Agency 

Solar Powered Rural Information Centres 

Hardware Provided: Labs of 20 Solid State Aleutia T1s, LED Monitors, Windows Server   Date: 2010-2011

“The low power characteristic of the Aleutia combined with a reasonable cost was attractive.It also came across as a product that was not too fragile and could weather tough environments.”

Diseye Isoun, Project Manager, Yentech

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Ethiopia ConnectED

Solar Powered Aleutia Computers in Rural Ethiopia Used by 700 Students

Hardware Provided: Aleutia T1s, LED Monitors, Solar Kit       Date: July 2010

“This project would have been impossible without the incredible support of the Aleutia team. They arepassionately dedicated to international development, but more than that, they are brilliant engineers. I sharedwith them a vague idea for the computer learning center, and they custom designed a solar-powered solution.”

JR Atwood, Project Manager, Ethiopia ConnectED, University of California Berkeley

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Digital and Direct Communications, London, UK

Compact, Energy Efficient PCs and Servers for Fast Growing Carbon Neutral Ad Agency

Hardware Provided: D-Series PCs, Servers        Date: May, 2009 to Present

“We found in Aleutia not just a supplier but a business partner that understood the way we work and our requirements. They always came out with a proactive and no-nonsense approach to our requests. When you need a solution to a problem you want to relay on someone able to do the extra mile. For us Aleutia is exactly like that.”

Geo Pirinoli, IT Manager, Digital and Direct Communications Ltd.

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Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK

VESA-Mount PCs that Pay for Themselves with Reduced Energy Costs

Deployment Size: 30 x Fanless T1 PCs Date: April, 2010
The department had an IT room and hallways equipped with Dell PCs available 24/7 for students to check their email on and browse the web. These desktops took up a lot of desk space and averaged power consumption of 110 watts. Cambridge chose to replace them with 30 Aleutia T1 Fanless PCs that were VESA-Mounted behind the monitors and used 17 Watts. This "zero footprint" approach not only increased space but dramatically reduced the TCO. Over 3 years the T1s will pay for themselves in reduced electricity costs with 84% lower power consumption. That made the purchase eligible for a Carbon Trust grant that covered the entire upfront cost of the Aleutia hardware without it having to come out of the department’s budget.
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USAID and Paiwastoon, Afghanistan

Rugged Web Caching and Proxy Server for One Laptop Per Child Installations

Deployment Size: 15 x Fanless T1 PCs with USB-LAN Adapter Date: January, 2010
Kabul-based IT services company, Paiwastoon was deploying thousands of OLPC XO laptops for US Aid. Internet connectivity is limited to expensive VSAT connections so Paiwastoon wanted a proxy server to cache websites. It had to be fanless because the operating environment is so dusty and rugged because the temperature range is so great. Each T1 supports up to 300 XO laptops and Paiwastoon has customized Squid Proxy to limit high-bandwidth Flash and multimedia content so that no one user halts the network. The first student who goes to a wikipedia page takes it off the satellite. The next 300 students can take it from the T1 server – making the most of a poor internet connnection. Aleutia will now supply the X1 Fanless server with dual Lan ports onboard.
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Musoma Secondary School, Tanzania

Solar-Powered Physics and Computer Lab

Deployment Size: 17 x Fanless E2 PCs Date: May 2008
A secondary school without access to electricity in rural Tanzania used solar power and rugged Aleutia Eco PCs to train students in word processing and programming. Open source software enabled the school to simulate expensive oscilloscopes and thus offer an interactive physics lab. Note: since this initial test bed, we’ve supplied a further 15 E2s (along with 15 low power monitors), all equipped with Ubuntu 9.04 and running off solar power.
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