Dear list,
hypothetical situation, trying to figure which direction to recommend
on a project.

I have a client with two offices Toronto and Vancouver, and we are
trying to figure the best game plan.

What do you think of this idea?

Put a big server into the Toronto office, put a fraction of a T1 from
each office, to the Internet Backbone. Then use a VPN tunnel to
connect Vancouver to the server in Toronto.

Okay, the $50,000 question, will forcing a transaction through the
tunnel (roughly a 3000 mile trip, one way) have any ill effects, will
the tunnel affect the performance of the transaction? Roughly 40% of
the transactions come from Vancouver, would that be too much tunnel
traffic? What about adding additional offices, say Montreal, Halifax
and New York City?

Thanks,

Paul











Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
Email: paul@...
Website: www.tricattechnologies.com