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the file off of the LAN and a second to put the file onto the remote
machine. The use of NFS halved the time it took to deliver images.
Imagings have been transmitted across a wide area network, they
take from 7 to 15 minutes usually to be sent this way. Adding a very
high speed channel that is capable of transmitting images in less than
a minute makes the system really impress. In both cases, it is
necessary to make the system as efficient as possible. Our second pass
at making this work included an Network File System (NFS) capability.
This allowed us to perform only one FTP to get an image from site A to
site B. The first scenario tested required at least two, one to get
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