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From: phil@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Phil Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.misc
Subject: Wide Area Networks
Message-ID: <6900@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 23 Jan 89 15:04:17 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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We are going to open a branch office in another city.  The branch office
MUST be 'online' with the main office.  It would be ideal if RFS could
run over a wide area network.  Has anyone done this?  Did you use modems,
or a faster method of communications?

This seems like a trivial matter to me, but the hardware vendors we deal
with are balking at the idea, and one suggested that duplicate data sets
be maintained at both sites with batch updates/exception reporting.

Any ideas are welcome.

One last note:  This client will PAY what it takes to do the job, yet
the reps we talk to always consider costs first, even to the point of
omitting information on some products because they are 'too expensive'.
There must be ways to solve the WAN problem, but have the reps omitted
something important again?