Don't blink. Just...don't blink

Flashback to 2000, when this pilot fish is the newly hired IT manager for a small company with three major branches spread across a continent.

"Headquarters was in Dallas, with Atlanta and Los Angeles branches connected by frame relay -- a 128Kb link to L.A. and 256Kb to Atlanta," fish says. "The frame relay price was high, the bandwidth was low, and remote users were constantly waiting on the corporate database to catch up with them."

Fish does the math and realizes there's a better way to do this: Putting in a T1 line at each location, plus point-to-point IPSec links for the VPN, would allow more speed at less cost.

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