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Joel Oleson has a great entry on Global & Multi Farm deployments of SharePoint. He explains in simple terms the issues and in particular the details on SSPs over the WAN (a BIG customer issue) are essential to anyone looking at enterprise deployment planning of the 2007 products.
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/12/13/global-multi-farm-deployments.aspx