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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:40:18 EDT
From:         BIG-REQ@SUVM.BITNET
Subject:      BIG-LAN Digest, Volume 4, Number 51, Friday, July 31, 1992

BIG-LAN DIGEST             Friday, 31 July 1992        Volume 4 : Issue 51

Today's Topics:

             Help needed with gateways fee scheme development
                            Position Openings
                      PowerSwitch LT beta tests (Q)
                           Optical Disk as B/U

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:57:59 GMT
From: william1@drill.me.utoronto.ca (Robert Williams)
Subject:      Help needed with gateways fee scheme development


Sincerest apologies if this posting appear in inappropriate news groups.
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A friend of mine has been asked to develop a fee structure for accessors of
a companies information resources.  She writes as follows,

 I need help on the following: I need to know how certain organizations charge
 for use of their network gateways (gateways join two systems/networks
 together, usually at the midrange or mainframe level e.g. at the Front-end
 Processor). For instance, do they charge by the number of sessions a client
 signs up for, by the number of sessions the client actually used, do they have
 a one-time membership fee with a smaller monthly maintenance fee which allows
 users a large but undefined number of sessions, do they not charge at all and
 if so then what is their justification? All these questions ask: HOW is the
 gateway charged. But I also need to know, if possible, WHAT the charge is
 based on: what cost items do they include in maintenance of the gateway
 and what percentage of these cost items is used. Cost items include: human
 resources, CPU time, memory, software development, and other overhead items.

Any ideas from anyone who is familiar with this area would be appreciated.
Any information on books or papers covering this topic, or firms doing similar
 work, would also be appreciated.

Please send all responses to the Email address below.  If there is enough
 interest, I will post a summary on the net.

Thanks in advance.

Robert Williams
U of T, CIMLab
Toronto, Canada
Email : william1@drill.me.utoronto.ca

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 18:32:39 -0600
From: lmsabo@mbnoa1.mnet.uswest.com (L M Sabo)
Subject:      Position Openings

U S WEST Communications, one of seven regional Bell
telecommunications operating companies, has a need for highly
skilled individuals to focus our vigorous entry into the Frame Relay,
SMDS, Transparent LAN Service, and FDDI markets.

U S WEST Advanced Communications Services has immediate
openings for:

1.	Tier 3 technical support positions.  3 to 5 years experience in
Tier 3 environment, significant technical understanding of a wide
variety of digital products and services, exceptional customer service
and negotiating skills, as well as strong understanding of the network
is key.

2.	Project Managers experienced in managing all phases of
customer interacting from the point of sale of a service through
cutover and final acceptance of the service.

In the future U S WEST Advanced Communications Services will have
the following openings:

3.	Experienced sales and technical support individuals familiar
with LAN architectural design, Customer LAN interconnect
applications, Product/Marketing knowledge of LANs, bridges, routers,
and the following communications protocols: TCP/IP, OSI, SNA/SDLC,
IPX, XNS, DECNET, X.25, SNMP, and CMIP.

4.	Network Design Engineers, familiar with LAN interconnect, host
access and LAN integration using standards-based protocols and
products, who are skilled at designing local, metropolitan, and wide-
area networks.

We especially encourage women and people of color to send a
current resume to:

Lloyd Erbaugh
U S WEST Communications
Advanced Communications Services
150 S. 5th Street, Suite 2800
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
FAX: (612) 663-3550

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Date: 30 Jul 92 05:44 GMT
From: KAGI.KEE@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Kagi Eng, Kee Nethery,PRT)
Subject:      PowerSwitch LT beta tests (Q)

Radiant Enterprises in San Francisco is looking for some large Mac sites to
beta test its latest product, the PowerSwitch LT. The PowerSwitch LT is
basically a 15 amp 120vac power switch that is controllable via localtalk. The
configuration we want to test is it's LaserWriter mode where it turns off
LaserWriters that have not been communicated with within a  time period set by
the user (2 minutes to 2 hours) and then turns the LaserWriter back on when a
user prints to it. We are concerned with how users will react to the
PowerSwitch in a large office where the LaserWriters normally stay on 24 hours
a day 365 days per year.

We are looking for sites that are large enough to feel that it's too much of a
hassle to turn off LaserWriters at night. We want to test the PowerSwitch LT
with all the various spoolers out there (Vax, CAP, etc.) We'd like to test it
with non-Apple LaserWriters. We are also looking for Quebec and Japanese test
sites to provide extra feedback on the documentation.

If your site has these features, and you are interested in testing it for us,
please contact Kee Nethery and describe your situation; estimated number and
types of LaserWriters, types of spoolers, etc. Thanks,

Kee Nethery
kagi.kee@applelink.apple.com

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Date: 29 July 92, 12:57:05 SLT
From: Daud R. Matthews          1-467-5731 (off) 1-4 D03T005  at SAKSU00
Subject:     Optical Disk as B/U

Can anyone help?
We have a 1Gb optical disk REO from Pinnacle and are backing up our F/S's to it

The problem is the time it takes. 220mb H/D is taking 1.5 hours, after optimizi
ng the parameters.

We are using NBACKUP from Novell.

Has anyone any experience or can tell me if we are missing something (or if thi
s is the usual time)?

Thanx
Daud R. Matthews: Technical Support Manager, Computer Centre,
                  King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
                            (D03T005@SAKSU00.BITNET)

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