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The influx of foreign residents to Andalucia has
created a large demand for a variety of high tech services that
make it possible to either keep in touch with friends and family
back home or even to run a business in another country from the
comfort of sunny, southern Spain. Computers and networks with the
help of ADSL connections make this possible today. And to meet the
demands created a number of computer companies, big and small, have
mushroomed in this region - especially along the coastal areas.
Some have been around a relatively long time while others have set
up recently with new ideas.
Smaller companies advertise in Sur in English and
- if you want computer help on a small scale - tend to be less expensive
as they work on an hourly rate because they don't carry such large
overheads. However, larger companies can provide better back up
and are able to obtain hardware at less expensive prices.
Obviously now many companies specialize in networks
that either connect computers in one office together or connect
different offices together. The latter is a common scenario in this
region because there are many small businesses that have grown to
the point where they have two or more offices giving a need to connect
the offices together to share data.
The normal solution to this nowadays is not to have
a leased telephone line between the two offices but instead to equip
each office with an ADSL connection (DSL) and connect it with specialist
systems called VPN - Virtual Private Networks. Some companies like
BT offer VPN over their network rather than the public Internet.
ADSL is available in most locations as long as the
distance to the telephone exchange doesn't exceed about five kilometers.
Another concept becoming popular is called terminal server where
all the office data is stored in a remote location or the application
programs are run from a remote location.
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