Moving Oracle Discoverer to another site

I am asking advice as a complete layman and a non-technical person who has been handed a task!
We have a set up where we use/share Discoverer along with a separate site down south where the Discoverer is actually situated.
Our databases are outhosted in Maidenhead.
Our base office is up north where we have a secure dedicated line to our database. I have been told we presently have to ping all over the place to use Discoverer.
What would I need to do to get our own independant version of Discoverer set up in our northern office using our dedicated direct line to access our data?
Is it as simple as setting up a new server for discoverer up north and recreating all of our links to the data again or is it much more complicated than that?
Also does anyone have a rough idea of how much this would be likely to cost? (Then I can prepare my bosses for a shock before getting an exact quote!)

Hi,
Are you using the web based tools Discoverer Plus/viewer or are you using Discoverer Desktop?
If you are using Discoverer Plus/Viewer then this uses a 3 tier architecture. So tier 1 is your database containing the data, tier2 is the application server containing the Discoverer software and tier3 is the browser/applet on your PC. If you want to move Discoverer then you could install a new Application server (tier2) while still using the same tier1 database. You could also install a new database server (tier1), but then you would need to replicate the database and that is more complicated.
If you are using Discoverer desktop then this connects directly to the database so any routing would be at the network level.
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