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PC Portables to LAN

MAC to LAN

Review meetings

TDRSS connection

Remote phone

Fax

GOES-3

Marisat

Multiplexed phone

Spares & docs (comms)

Print services
(for all machine types)

Archive storage hardware

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Xircon

Shiva, Cayman, Asante

at ASA?

capability currently exists

ops cost?

replaced by GOES?

requires GOES

large topic

several solutions exist

backup and data transport

In a broader view, we rate improvement in Communications as the highest scientific priority, followed by Networking, then Computing. If hard choices have to be made for immediate implementation, then the major request priorities are:

Throughput1GByte/day
2G/day Availability 2x6 hours/day
24 hours/day Remote Voice
Local Network modification Computer replacement Fax

1 Very High 3 Medium 1 Very High 3 Medium 1 Very High 1 Very High 2 High
3 Medium

We strongly recommend periodic meetings among participants of the Science Users' Committee Working Groups and ASA personnel to discuss the actual implementation of requirements. In the past, recommendations from the users have, in many cases, gone unheeded or implemented in a manner not conducive for scientific research. Feedback from the science users in the planning process will help to ensure the best possible solution.

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