RE: reducing the noise of several PCs

[cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Here's another idea if you don't like KVM switches, which I don't because
they always seem to have performance glitches and don't handle multiple
monitor configs too well, if at all.

Using something like VNC often draws complaints that it's slow. Well, it's
not. It's the network that's slow, right? So why not use 100/1000 NICs,
breath deep and buy a gig switch, and you'd barely know you're on a network.
So here's a config with approximate prices that would address lots of issues
probably without raising another.

Rack with power $250.
UPS to run for 2-3 hours, $600
4 x U1s, reasonably configured, $4500
1gb 8 port switch $3000
Router $300
Workstation for your desk $1200
Cables $100
Software you probably have

For about $10K, you can configure a suitable and very flexible environment
that lives in another room with redundancy and backup that'll perform
adequately for almost anything to do with trading.


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	JL [mailto:stopnreverse@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Monday, January 07, 2002 6:18 PM
To:	cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: reducing the noise of several PCs

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--- cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I happened onto http://www.activetradermag.com/
> <http://www.activetradermag.com/>  looking for
> (different) information and
> notice a reference to "Using KVM switches to
> unclutter your trading desk" in
> this month's issue of Active trader. I don't
> subscribe to this publication,
> but if anyone on this list does, I'm sure it would
> be of interest to post a
> summary of this article as it relates to recent
> discussion on the list about
> reducing the noise of several computers that usually
> surround a trader.
>
> Colin West