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John Meeuwse wrote:
> 
> Could anybody help me?
> 
> I work for a hospital and and have extensive experience with LANS, However,
> we are going to begin adding satelite stations to our lan and I don't have
> any experience with WANS.
> 
> Is the best way to establish a connection through modem with standard
> lines, should it be ISDN lines. Would it be better to try and go through
> satelite. Do you have a server at every satelite store and connect it to a
> main central server.
> 
> What kind of speed differnences are there. My email address is:
> meeu...@vianet.on.ca.
> 
> any help you could give me would be greatly appreiciated.
> 
> Thank you
John,

You have ask a loaded question. There are many different ways to "build"
a WAN. You have only mentioned a few. Much of the design depends on the
type of traffic the WAN will be handling.

Once the WAN is in operation it must be monitored and supported.

If you provide more info I would be glad and try to give you some
direction.

The additional info I need is:

1.	What are your budget requirements? (Inital investment & on-going
monthly)

2.	What is the purpose of the WAN? In other words what type of
applications will be 	running over the WAN?

3.	Will routing be required between sites?

4.	How are you planning on supporting the WAN connection?

5.	What platforms will be running over the WAN? (Novell, NT or others)

Regards,
Doug Hogue
President, Hogue Technology Group