We did have trouble, rarely, with our bisync connections. Speed was an issue late in the afternoon; the hub for a major package carrier is just across town from our DC, and it was a struggle sometimes to get the data out before the truck would arrive. The biggest issue was our disaster recovery site would not shell out $1000 for the same model of synchronous modem that we had, and it never did work during our practice recoveries.
Moving to a sockets connection was painless and it has never gone down. And after a few growing pains, I find myself looking forward to my next AS2 trading partner. Howard Parks 1 Peter 4:10 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hurd, Richard [SLCUS] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Advantis (GXS) bisync dialup Would that I could talk our Networking and Computing Services people into accepting this argument. I'm having to move off of a bisync line for our Sterling connection for just this reason: "Bisync is old and dead." They keep throwing in my face the fact that they had to buy parts for the last 3745 off of eBay. So we'll be moving to some IP-based new connectivity as soon as they make up their minds as to what we will be using. I'm not holding my breath. Meantime, my bisync line keeps on running and running and running... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Galgano Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Advantis (GXS) bisync dialup Please no responses that bisync is old, slow and dead. I already know that. Back in Nov when I was in the process of moving some customers to an IP based comm solution, GXS told me the deadline to turn off async, bisync and SNA connections had been extended to July 1. So I just back burnered the project to move some other things up in the priority queue. Today I read the bulletin on GXS website (link below), and the bulletin makes no mention of bisync being cut off. One GXS rep I spoke with a while back told me they were looking at supporting a bisync gateway. Anyone know what the status of this is. https://www.gxsolc.com/public/EDI/us/support/TB/tb0403.html My customers generally say, "if it aint broke, I don't want to spend money to make it use a new technology". I can understand because there is generally NO payback for the investment. My clients don't really care if the connection is dial up bisync or secure socket over the internet. They just care that it works and is reliable, and bisync has been both. Regards, cjg Carl J. Galgano EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 770-422-2995 www.ediconsulting.com . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
