a touch typist will notice the sluggish character echo. The LAT 80 millisecond delay offloads both the network by sending fewer larger packets which also reduces interrupts at each system. Early Terminal Server Vendors Digital Equipment Corporation - primarily via their DECserver systems. Able Computer - An early provider of Terminal Server products. Chase Research - A Europe-based early provider of Terminal Server products. Cisco Systems - Provided LAT on Terminal Servers as early as 1990. Emulex Corporation - A California-based early provider of Terminal Server products that included X.25 and 3270 features; they sold through Datability and other OEMs. Hughes LAN Systems - Provided LAT capability in 1989. Interlink Computer Sciences, an early 1990 LAT vendor. Xyplex Corporation - An early provider of Terminal Server products based in Massachusetts. Open Source solutions Most Linux distributions offer a client and server lat package, that can easily be installed via a package manager. This allows e.g. to access a local area network server while being connected to a corporate VPN network that would otherwise block local TCP/IP traffic. See also Terminal server - An active device to connect serial devices to Local Area Networks Console server - An active device to connect LAN attached users to Linux/Unix server operator ports References External links http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linux-decnet/index.php?title=LAT - Open source LAT project for Linux Digital Equipment Corporation History of software Local area networks Network protocols OpenVMS