Transarc's support of its AFS 3 product will continue until DCE becomes widely deployed on all major hardware platforms. Individual workstations need IP networking enabled to get required UDP functionality. For normal use, a minimum 56k baud channel is recommended. AFS also supports slower lines, with file transfer speeds constrained by the speed of the line. Further information is available through Transarc.
Additional storage depends upon server use.
For clients, at least 20 megabytes of disk storage are recommended, most of which is used for AFS caching. For diskless clients, AFS sets up an in-memory cache. A minimum of one file server is required. To benefit from AFS replication, at least two AFS servers are required. Three file servers are considered even better because of the way AFS synchronizes the replicated databases.