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AUTOCAD REVITSUITE FOR 50 USERS

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buchianyi
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AUTOCAD REVITSUITE FOR 50 USERS

Hello all,
I just registered on this forum.
I have a team of 50 people working from 7 different locations. We have network connectibility from all 7 locations but also often work individually outside the network. I am desirous of deploying Atocad Revit Architecture Suite for use by all team members. Could somebody help me with info on how to go about this, what sort of license is most suitable and the cost implication?
Thank you.
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TravisNave
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Well, there's a few ways you can do this. If all of your seven different locations are on the same WAN, either by VPN or MPLS or any other method, then you might consider having a single license manager. We have nearly 20 offices nationwide and run a single license manager on our WAN very successfully. The benefit to this is that all users have access to the entire pool of licenses. The disadvantage is that if the license server fails, everybody is down.
If your seven different locations have their own individual LAN connections, you might consider a distributed setup. This would essentially put a license manager in each location with a set amount of your licenses broken up into each office. So if you had 21 seats, you could put three in each office, for example. The advantage to this is that each office would have local connectivity to their own license manager and failures at other offices woudn't affect their office. The disadvantage would be that individual offices would be limited to a smaller finite number of licenses.
For users that are offsite, they can simply use the license borrowing feature to take a license when them when they leave the network. They can also connect via VPN while offsite as well. So this shouldn't be an issue regardless of the type of system you use.
If you need more details on this, please let me know.


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JTBWorld
in reply to: buchianyi

It is less work and cost to have a single license server. Having 7 license servers or the like is a higher cost. You don't need dedicated servers though. You should be able to use an existing server for this.
But then you have to weigh in what happens if the connection between the offices goes down. If you have the file server centrally it is an indication that you would be fine with a single license server. Or can the users continue work if the connection between offices is down, and how often might it happen? Just some thoughts to consider.

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