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Re: Network traffic
by harmless on Friday 04/Jul/2003, @03:18

I have used Envisex terminals with Xwindows over 10Mb LAN links to hp-ux boxes with no probs. This was at a large international company about four years ago. We used them for a number of server-based apps for specific tasks including a pretty chunky help-desk tool, about 200 users concurrently, with unrestricted surfing (Netscape Navigator), email (good ol' OpenMail) without any quotas, and all under CDE. In my experience, you only need 100Mb in the office if you are doing a lot of large file transfers or have Windoze pushing out NetBUI and the like ;)

Bizarrely, the IT department decided to put a Windoze desktop on each desk to allow us to use Office, and then replaced the help-desk tool with a suite of NT server-based tools. Shortly after Openmail was replaced by Exchange :(

Whilst the new tools allowed us to do more, I shudder to think of the increase in cost. The net traffic was still easily coped with over 10Mb, even with the massive increase due to the extra and bloated emails, file "sharing", and inevitable worms!

The final irony was the IT department was then outsourced to reduce costs!!! Any IT admins out their might like to think about that the next time they are asked about the possibility of running a thin-client network as opposed to Windoze desktops :D

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