First off, this isn't a sales pitch, I'm an engineer but I felt like I just
HAD to reply.
RE: your issue about video conferencing using 3 multilinked ISDN lines,
Broadwing sells a frame circuit that goes into our ip cloud and connects to
a Nortel BSN box also known as a "Shasta" box. This box does firewalling,
sets up ipSec tunnels, routes, etc. etc., whole lots of stuff. We are also
supporting video conferencing services off these circuits because we can
provide COS (class of service) by ip address via our Cisco GSX (12016)
platforms. We also sell a Sony h.323 camera that has a 10BaseT connection
on the back and can talk to like cameras or to ISDN based systems
(Picturetel, Polycom) via a third party site. So...., video ain't just for
ISDN anymore.
If anyone wants to know more, email me offline.
Bob Schussler, CCNA, CNE5
Sales Engineer
Broadwing / Indianapolis
317-469-3719
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Walzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 12:35 PM
To: 'Cisco'
Subject: Video conferencing over IP question
We are building a Frame Relay network from scratch. We have 2 main offices
and around 8 remote offices. For equipment the four main offices will have
3640s and the 4 remote offices will have 2620s. Two of the main offices will
100 + users while the other two will have 25 + users. The remaining remote
offices will have 5-10 users. We currently run 3 ISDN lines into each office
for video conferencing and the phone bills are quite expensive.
We are looking into running video conferencing over the Frame network and my
question concerns what switch I should install in the offices. Right now I
am looking at the 3548 XL at two of the main offices with 2924 XL switches
for the rest of the offices. If video conferencing over IP becomes a reality
in 6 months I was thinking about adding a 5000 series switch at the main
site to have a core/distribution layer with the 3548 XLs serving as the
access layer. I am concerned about the 2924 XLs in the four remote offices.
Should I look into the 3524 XL series for the remote offices to be able to
handle the video conferencing traffic?
Thanks,
Jeff
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