Hi, this is my opinion about Server and Citrix
I just joined the board but I have used A/C for 5 years already.
I agreed with Bert that Log Me In is not as solid as Citrix or Terminal services. I have considered Citrix before but I think Terminal Services has more advantages.
Basically, when you used Terminal Services, you run application
as if you are in the same room with the server. (same with CItrix). We have two offices with a third location for billing. We used VPN with Firewall SONIC devices. The bandwidth is 1.5 Meg up and down. Up means the direction of data from a site back to the server like UPLOADING, down is from the server to the other sites.
Pay more attention on the UPLOAD traffic then download.
Once I reduce about 30 % of UP bandwidth and increase significantly the DOWN traffic, it still slows the systems completely.
We have now 2 T1 in the server site, T1 in each site.
We have about 35 users logged at any time, with Voice over IP.
Our systems are almost always up. I have to reboot it maybe once every 3 months.
I do not use Citrix, so I cannot compare Terminal Services and
with it but I think Terminal Services are better choice for us
because for almost the same cost. you have a full local computer
that can do a lot of things such as word processing, scanning.
Right now our Amazing Chards database is about 500 Meg
the ImporItems folder is about 31 Gigs, with 150,000 documents and about 16,000 folders.It is still fast enough.
The reason that Terminal Services enviroment is faster because
only a small number of data of the keyboards are sending back
and forth from the remote desk to the server.
Ciao
CYL
