It all depends on client load per circuit. 64k for 5 moderate users isn't unattainable, assuming a no other significant traffic on the WAN. We have a number of sales offices that support 30+ users, generally about 15 at any given time, doing Exchange across 128/256k frame links. But its all dependent on the actual amount of client traffic that is generated, not only for Exchange but for other apps as well.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Miller, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:58 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Consolidating Exchange Servers > > > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
