FPN (Federated Portal) and WPC (Web Page Composer)

Hi all,
We implemented various web sites based on WPC (Web Page Composer) and now we need to federate this instance with other consumer nodes.
I read on SAP 880842 note that it's not possible to federate WPC.
Is there any options to federate sites developed in WPC?
What can I do in this scenario?
Thanks!

Thanks again Marcus.
But we can't use this option because we'll loose the WPC structure... It will need to be rebuild all site navigations...
We are working now with WPC content mirror (copying content from one server to another).
But we still need some help. We need to automatic copy KM content. Can you help us in this case too?
I opened a thread at this link:
/thread/1092248 [original link is broken]
Edited by: Ricardo Guedes on Oct 20, 2008 3:29 PM

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Chech the SAP Note Number: [1080110 |https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes/sdn_oss_ep_km/~form/handler]
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Below is SAP response for this issues
13.09.2010 - 08:52:12 CET - Reply by SAP
Dear customer,
I can confirm that the issue described in SAP Note 1294833 is indeed
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available but our developers have advised me that the fix will be
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