1 Site or 2 Sites?

Hi,
After reading some posts/sheets and that kind of stuff I still got some answers which remains unanswered.
The question below I do not see answered in other posts, they just refer to 2 sites implementation.
First question, what makes two sites two sites and why not one complete site?
Some info about this
We have a dual datacenter setup with redundant network and hosts are connected to 1 VLAN.
The datacenters are 20 km away from each other and connected via a dark fiber line.
Is this seen as 1 site or 2 sites?
Because if this is seen as 1 site we can have 1 pool accross 2 datacenters.

So, with Lync 2013 for HA you'll want a minimum of 3 servers for proper quorum. Per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg412996.aspx "We recommend that all your Enterprise
Edition Front End pools include at least three Front End Servers. In Lync Server, the architecture of Front End pools uses a distributed systems model, with each user’s data kept on three Front End servers in the pool.". You'll also want them evenly
split across the datacenters, so we're talking about 2 in each. That's a lot of front ends for 250 users. If HA is critical, that may be an acceptable path if not a touch unsupported. You will need paired hardware load balancers in each side
for the https portion of this.
Standard edition is exactly like you described, the failover would not be automatic, however it would also not be a big deal. You could most likely fail over that number of users in 15 mins. I would go with this path, you'd stay supported,
have less to worry about, and you have a solid supported failover option that can be executed in minutes.
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