Dan Schwartz wrote: > > Dear Charles: > > Thank you *very* much for the offer. Right now they are in the process of > getting the T-1 line provisioned (still 30+ days away, courtesy of Verizon); > and as they get closer to deciding on whether they want a VPN channel between > their offices I'll shepherd them towards this. > > [By the way, you're probably wondering why they would need a dual CPU > encryption appliance: The firm is a service bureau, scanning in over 100,000 > documents per day - About 5 gigabytes per day. Then, they send the image files > to Manila, where a crew of 200 operators key in and verify the data (sort of a > "manual OCR"), then FTP the text back to NJ where it's put on disk or tape for > the customer. Right now, they're sending a DVD every day via DHL to Manila > with the scans: It's actually slightly cheaper than a T-1; but they lose a > day. Basically, with T-1 lines on both ends (they are 4 miles from the > Pennsauken peering point) the 1.544 megabit line will be fully loaded for 11 > hours just transmitting the data. Where the encryption (VPN circuit) comes in > is that some of the customers are financial institutions, and it's a selling > point in the highly competitive business.]
[ snip ] What am I missing? How is that you think that you can saturate a single 500 MHz celeron with an encrypted 1.5 Mbps connection? Unless I'm missing something, you might do well to redo that math . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
