Going to cut right to the point on this question, as I'm after as diverse range of solutions as possible so don't want to effect any opinions with the question too much.
- Client is a UK based company.
- Organisation is 95% Windows with AD
- They have an IT policy of keeping as little infrastructure "on premises" as possible, as such they have a 1Gbps line to a data centre which houses all server infrastructure.
- UK branches who can't justify a high speed link run a local server and Windows DFS for fast file access with synchronisation - works fine.
- This company have decided to open an office in Sydney, Australia.
- Currently they have 20 people in this office, as well as 1 man "presences" around the country.
- They are having issues with both latency and bandwidth accessing the UK. Typical tests from their office yield usually no greater than 4Mbps and 320ms on a good day.
- The high latency is preventing use of terminal services.
- They need access to a lot of the same data as the UK staff.
We've had quite a few ideas already, but I'd like thoughts on how the users of ServerFault would solve this problem. Feel free to ask questions :)