One of the newer solutions offered for the purpose of archiving is off-site storage via an application service provider (ASP). This remote archiving allows a hospital to outsource the hardware, software, and support for its image archive to a third-party. Images are retrieved via a web-browser application, and the ASP provider takes care of all the updates, uptime requirements, backup, and disaster recovery. Speed of retrieval is dependent on the same parameters as an in-house archive in addition to the speed of the wide area-network connection to the ASP. Some reports have shown speed improvements using an ASP because the ASP was able to use larger jukeboxes and, therefore, to keep all image data online compared to operator intervention for archive magneto optical disk (MOD) loading. A typical cost model for ASP archiving is to charge a fee per image and a fee per retrieval. Definitive, long-term cost studies have not yet been done—only projections to determine the point at which it becomes beneficial to use an ASP rather than in-house storage model, and vice versa, have been made