just consolidating - we are still NT 4.0

would moving to 2000 change things in this scenario?

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:04 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Consolidating Exchange Servers


Are you moving to 2000 or just consolidating?


>
>All,
>
>Looking for some feedback / possible horror stories on the topic of server
>consolidation. We are an Exchange 5.5 shop - 80 servers in 55 Sites. Every
>Site has a local mailbox server. The Boss is wanting to consolidate all the
>Exchange servers into 3, 1 in each region (North America, Asia, Europe). It
>would work out to be about 2500 mailboxes per server. The network is an ATM
>backbone (IP cloud) - with circuit speeds ranging from 64K to 512K. I am 
>not
>concerned about the load of the server, as I can definitely build a beefy
>cluster to handle the amount of users - I am more concerned about the
>latency. I dont see running Outlook locally as an option, nor do I even see
>running a thin client as an option, seeing the circuit speeds we have...
>
>Any thoughts / suggestions?
>
>TIA,
>
>BM
>
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