Performance Issues with Qt utilizing Remote Server Repository

[gfulkerson]

We have -QT- Qt developers located around the country, but want to maintain a central repository for all projects in a data center.
The developer sites and data center are connected via OC3 WAN links with Riverbed Steelhead WAN Accelerators.
The Steelheads optimize normal NFS traffic quite well and we thought that the NFS file transfers to the developer workstations would be optimized with the Steelheads, but we are experiencing a lot of delays in loading projects from the central repository.

Has anyone encountered this scenario? Has anyone come up with an acceptable soultion?

[tobias.hunger]

How about using a version control system?