geographical deployment Vs geo load balancing SharePoint 2010

Question

we have a company wide SharePoint portals planned for few thousand users. since the users are distributed among different countries and their applications (hosted in sharepoint)

We would like to consider geo deployment Vs geo load balancing.

Please share your inputs.

We are aware of this,

1. Geo SharePoint Cluster facilitates - Farms at Central and other sites , db into regional. 2 db cluster - syncing using logshipping or SAN sync or SQL 2008 features like database mirroing

Vs

1. Loading balancing using URL and some 3rd party.
2. all farm,sites,db centralised.

benefits expecting. 1 High availability. 2.diaster recovering management. 3.maintenance

hope i miss some of the points to be covered

Answer 1

Have you had any success with this?

I started looking into possible solutions for geo deployment.

Can I ask you which version of Sharepoint 2010 you are using?

Thanks