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|> From: Cerqua, Toby [mailto:[email protected]] |> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:02 AM |> |> hey all, |> |> we've got a client that wants some crazy stuff, and i need either |> suggestions or confirmation that this is impossible/too expensive. |> |> client needs 45Mbps pushed over 20 miles... and he wants it |> wireless. the |> kicker is that they don't want a T3 because it is "too |> expensive" and it |> would take too long to get installed. it doesn't need to be |> constant, but he |> wants to move of 2.5GB within 45 minutes. this is in the |> chicago area, if |> that helps any. so, i don't know, satellite? The expense part is arguable, but they may be correct about the lead-time. I'm seeing more than 6 months for provisioning here, for T3s. I hear similar numbers everywhere else. However, microwave towers take almost as long, and are even MORE expensive (the permits alone, might take that long and *then* you have to acquire the rights-of-way and build the towers<sigh>). Depending on frequency of occurance, it might be far cheaper to burn a DAT tape, or DVD-R, and drive it the 20 miles. You might want to consider doing this until the T3 gets installed. It all depends on what the transfer is worth (it looks like a data synchronization run). If is is a data-sync run then they might want to consider a lower-speed line and sync RDBMSs, such as with Oracle Replication Services (Assuming that it *is* RDBMS data and they *are* using Oracle [Sybase works too]). The bottom-line is that, they look like they have a systems architecture problem that they are trying to fix with a claw-hammer. Everything is possible. It is just that certain versions of "possible" cost more than others.
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