E-mail access to improve for people on TDY within AMC
"Soon AMC's mobility warriors will have the capability to check their government e-mail from other bases within the command, as long as they have access to a computer on the new AMC Windows 2000 Network," said Staff Sgt Tony Reddick, 868th Communications Squadron.
With the military's desire to go paperless and an Air and Space Expeditionary Force concept in full swing, the need has never been greater for reliable and immediate communication via e-mail.
First Lt. Ron Jones, 805th Communications Group, explained that in the past, users were required to use Remote Access Services to logon to their home base network and check their e-mail through public telephone lines.
"At best, a user could only receive connection speeds up to a maximum of 56 kilobytes per second. Slow connection rates have always been the downside of RAS when working with e-mail and high bandwidth desktop applications," said Jones.
This will all change with advancements in e-mail through AMC's new Windows 2000 Network he said.
After all AMC bases are migrated to AMC's consolidated server, users who are TDY to another AMC base will be able to check their e-mail by logging onto the new AMC Windows 2000 Network.
Users can connect to the local area network with their own user name and password from their home station giving users access to their e-mail data without having to RAS into their account. All that is required is a desktop computer or laptop with access to a LAN connection at a migrated base, an enabled AMC-2K account with access to the users mailbox, and their AMC-2K username and password.
Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Dover AFB, Del., Pope AFB, N.C., Travis AFB Calif., MacDill AFB, Fla. and Grand Forks AFB, N.D., have migrated to the AMC-2K network.
"We are on schedule to complete the rest of AMC migrations to the AMC-2K network by the end of the calendar year," said Reddick.
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