Re: Setting up new office to connect to AS/400

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:37 08/31/98 -0700, Lamar Thomas wrote:
>I need some ideas on setting up a new (small 3-4 person) office in the UK to
>connect into our AS/400 on the West Coast of the USA.  The new office will
>be running on PC(s)  with Win 95 and Client Access.  There will also be one
>printer server there as well.  I was looking at the following solution:

We do something similar (2-1/2 users, 1 printer) for an office in Frankfurt 
with frame relay & cisco routers directly into our lan. I believe the line 
speed is certified at 32K. Until recently we were using an SAA server, but we 
finally got rid of it a month or so back and now are just using TCP/IP. It 
seems stable enough. I'm told that FR is the most economical way to do this, 
but this may only be because the CFO is a little paranoid about virtual private 
networking. For terminal sessions, the bandwidth requirement is fairly low, but 
we will need to install a replication server in Frankfurt when we get ready to 
roll out client-server. Ping returns about 130-150ms, compared to about 13 
locally, so latency is a major factor for any chatty traffic. Configuration was 
really simple. Since we didn't purchase any additional hardware, I haven't a 
clue about the costs.




Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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