Sure it would. And it offers traffic shaping over the WAN to boot. http://www.packeteer.com/technology/branchoffice.cfm http://www.cto-magazine.com/article/07/05/07/MS-Packeteer-team-on-branch-office-appliance_1.html?WAN
There are other remote DC replacement appliance vendors out there that offer integrated solutions for branch offices - that's a pretty sophisticated one, but I used to have a link to one that was under $2500 - plug in and go... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/solutions/specializedservers/OEM/Products/BranchOffice.mspx Core Server and Read Only DC's in Server 2008 should be interesting too... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar From: "Jon Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 02/08/2008 04:32 AM Subject: Re: NAS/Print Server I don't think that would help in this situation. Jon On Feb 7, 2008 5:28 PM, Eric E Eskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jon Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/07/2008 10:37:45 AM: > Yeah we have something like this now but are looking to replace > a dedicated server that is way over kill for that office. All > they need in that office is someplace to dump backups and print > to. It is a one man with occasionally 3 person office. It > needs shared/sharable storage and printing. I've always wanted to try something like this: http://www.packeteer.com/products/ishaper/ Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
