Contrary to other reports, there are no firm plans in place for moving the DRA system to the new building. TLN is working with DRA, and decisions for moving the telecommunications equipment have not been finalized. The move will be attempted with as little downtime as possible. They are analyzing the stress points in the system, and looking at slow response time and lost transactions. Ameritech will be asked to run a bandmdth utilization study.
Graphics use much more band width than text.
While text can use 1 K of a line, graphics will utilize 10 K of a 56K line. It gets worse the more graphics stations a library has. A screen snapshot can be taken of these transactions. July 1 is the target date for the statewide database. First Search and Information Access are the selected vendors.