dvhorvath wrote:
. If all of the branch offices are connecting through security servers, and the corporate users are connecting directly through connection servers, you may be able to get away with tagging the connection servers linked to security servers as Branch, and the internal-only connection servers at the corporate office as Corporate.
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Using different connection servers (pods) for client from different sites would indeed allow us to reconfigure the pools with different bandwidth limits. The Corpo pod woud present the branch and corpo pools without limits. The Branch pod would present the branch and corpo pools with limits. The F5 would assign clients to pods according to source ip. Bingo.
The problem I am describing is theorical though. Although it is true that a person with unlimited bandwidth could use all the branch bandwidth our testing has demonstrated that normal use of 10 zero clients over one of ou 3mb adsl link did not cause any real issue. Everythng was fluid (while using office, IE, and line of business applications... no extreme videos or 3D in our use case). We even pushed our luck with a couple of youtube sessions and it did no affect performance for others (mainly because non-video work uses so little bandwidth anyways).
Thanks.
