[mdlug] Need ideas for a "telepresence" box

[Jason Taylor]

Take a look at eWON I have used them in a few scenarios that sound similar
to yours.

-jason
On Jan 25, 2013 1:20 PM, "David McMillan" <skyefire at skyefire.org> wrote:

>
>     My situation is this:  I have a large industrial system that is being
> shipped before long to the end customer in Western Europe. The machine has
> a number of Human-Machine Interfaces that are essentially Windows PCs with
> special GUIs, running on their own fixed-IP LAN.  The customer wants my
> employer to be able to do remote support of this machine on 5min notice,
> but their IT department is being all kinds of obstructionist.  So I'm
> thinking of doing an end run:  divorce this machine from their corporate
> network entirely (it doesn't need to be on their main network for
> production) and simply add a box (preferably Linux, but that might not be
> my call) to the LAN with a cellular modem, DynDNS, VNC, and a few other
> software tools that need to run locally (for example, I'll probably need to
> be able to run two lightweight WinXP virtual machines in parallel for some
> proprietary diagnostic software that, sadly, has no Linux version).
>
>     Of course, the biz being what it is, I'm not going to have a chance to
> test out this rig before it ends up on the other side of the pond.  So I'm
> soliciting opinions on whether this is a workable idea, and what I
> can/should do to have a bulletproof setup from the start, to avoid any mad
> scrambles later in the game.
>
>     For that matter, does anyone know much about cellular modems and
> service in Western Europe?  I keep hearing (mostly from bragging Euroids)
> how much better, faster, and cheaper their Internet is than in the US, but
> I don't know much about the details.  Particularly, what it takes to get a
> good broadband wireless data plan without taking a multi-year contract and
> getting into international financing issues.  If they have pay-as-you-go
> plans that we could refill remotely at need, that might be the way to go.
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