We have two offices that need to communicate in real time across our WAN (created from an encrypted VPN between the two office firewalls). As you know, sharing files across the WAN doesn't work so well so we set up separate colaberative client shares at each site. Unfortunately, my management team would like to have one client share that everyone uses. While it makes sense, I'm having a difficult time with this request. Our files range in size from little office documents to 1 GB Access databases.
I've been looking at DFS software that will replicate across the WAN allowing each site to access files locally, with the software creating file locks but that isn't working the way I would like it to. I've also 'high level' been looking at the Riverbed appliance that will accelerate the WAN connection, but it is very expensive.
Do you have any offices that work in a similar configuration? Do you have an experiencing with either the WAN optimization, WAFS products or the DFS products?
I'm in a bit of a time crunch so any help you can give me would be much appreciated.
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