Dear Michael,
Seems like a medical variant of a proprietary prepress system.
You have bigger problems than just a proprietary data transmission system.
For starters, you probably have a few terabytes of (semi?-)proprietary
storage, with it's added cost whenever you want to add more space.
I would do a complete cost-benefit analysis about throwing out the
proprietary system: You can also use this for leverage against the proprietary
system vendor to give you the info you need for the file transfer. After all,
they don't want to lose the service contract revenue.
Sometimes you have to hit a horse over the head with a 2x4 to get his
attention...
-> By the way, more graphics & prepress shops are throwing out proprietary
systems and going with off-the-shelf solutions.
Cheers!
Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael D. Schleif
>Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] portfw to *multiple* hosts ???
>>Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>>
>Large medical images -- some approaching gigabyte sizes.
>
>The internal network connects multiple facilities. The images may need
>to be shared across multiple facilities.
>
>Our preferred solution is to put one (1) copy of each image on a large
>and robust fileserver inside their network. The catch is, they are
>using proprietary systems for viewing and analyzing the images and we
>may not be granted access nor information adequate to implementing our
>preferred solution. Currently, the remote sources are using their
>proprietary systems (black boxes) to auto-magically transfer the files
>directly to one (1) proprietary system inside our customer's network.
>Yes, this looks everyway like ftp -- except the proprietary system
>vendor says, no, it is not that simple ;>
>
>When one of these images is needed on another proprietary system inside
>this network, somebody needs to push the required file to another
>proprietary system. Our customer wants ``pull'' access from any given
>system.
>
>In brainstorming alternatives, this occured to me:
>
> send images
> |
> V
> internet
> |
> V
> firewall
> |
> ---------------------
> | | |
> V V V
>host_1 host_2 host_n ...
>
>Regardless, whether or not this is the best solution for this
>application, how can this be done?
>
>What do you think?
>
>--
>
>Best Regards,
>
>mds
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