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Geographically Distant Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Server

I manage several network infrastructures which are separated by large geographic distances (100+ miles) and low bandwidth (~ 512 kbit). We already have a ship sailing in the ocean with a network onboard, consisting of AD, Exchange 2010 mailbox/CAS/hub, and other servers. The ship has the ~ 512 kbps connection via satellite and often loses it for hours at a time. When this happens, email destined <to> the ship will bounce. I also manage another small network on an island which has better bandwidth (~ 3 Mbps). My intention is to build a "smart host" or "mail hub" or  "mail bagging" solution on the island to sit and collect email for the ship. Then the ship will "pop" the island mail hub for messages every 5 minutes or so. This will preserve internet continuity for mail flow, while keeping the Exchange mailbox server onboard the ship, which is very important.

I was wondering if I could use another Exchange 2010 server in the Edge Transport role, on the island, to act as the mail hub. It would collect the inbound mail, destined to the ship, and wait until the ship was available to "pop" the messages. This would mean the Edge Transport server was separated from the rest of the Exchange environment via many miles and low bandwidth. Is this a bad idea?

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Very well - thanks for the advice.