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Hi Mike, Sorry for the delayed response. Those questions are hard to answer, as they depend on many variables... The specs of the dedicated local edex machine, the size and speed of your network bandwidth, and even I assume, the specs of the local machine Cave is running on. I am fairly sure that quite a few labs/professors and their students are using our cloud instance of edex, and as of now I haven't heard any significant complaints about latency times. This isn't to say they don't exist, just that I haven't heard anything about it as of now. You always have the option of doing both as well. You can set up your own edex machine and have full control and access to it, and then always point to our cloud instance if you wish to. Having your own local edex allows for much more control of data, but does require (I would say significantly) more maintenance/expertise. I hope this helps answer your question a bit. Thanks. --Shay Carter Software Engineer II UCAR - Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RHI-479315 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.