[162733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Andros Island Connectivity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Tue Apr 30 21:13:40 2013
To: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:13:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8DAE6568-23F4-4D8A-B32A-CAE44ACD33E8@oitc.com> (TR Shaw's
message of "Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47:57 -0400")
Cc: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>,
NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Protracted discussion (and promotion) has glossed over one key point:
>> None of the people on-site are technical, and all their data is accessed
>> via RDP on a server in the United States.
They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though
physics says you can never do better than 550, and that's for the
space segment alone) if they are running RDP, VNC, Citrix, or similar
technologies. Sorry for being a buzzkill, Warren. :)
-r
