Are you sure frame relay is 'not an option'? If you are needing to deploy a
'cheap' router at the central site, I'd reconsider FR.
Let's assume you really only need 192K or so of bandwidth at the remote
sites on an average. That would give you 6 * 192 = 1152K at your central
site, well under a T1. With the bursty nature of IP traffic, you can very
easily oversubscribe a central site's bandwidth with no adverse effects so
even if you need more bandwidth on the average, this would be workable.
Just order a T1 port at your remote sites with a 128K or 192K CIR on all the
PVC's going to the central site which could have a full blown CIR on it's T1
port.
Given that (Cisco) interfaces are not cheap you could get by with a sticking
a T1 WIC in a 2610 at the central site and call it a day. You could
probably use the LEC as your frame provider (not having to deal with a
national carrier like AT&T, MCI etc.) since your sites are not
geographically diverse. Using this scenario, I'm sure there will be
significantly lower re-occurring charges as well as the up front expense.
Besides the hardware cost, I'd go with frame relay for the ease of managing
one circuit and one interface at the central site.
Just my $.02
--
Mark - CCNP, CCDP
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert
Einstein
""SJ"" wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I hope everyone is doing well today. Since this is my first time
> writing to the Cisco groupstudy I would like to say that I am glad to be a
> member. As each of you I to hope to someday reach CCIE status. However,
as
> all of us I have to support myself and my family so work is always number
> one priority. With that being said I have a work related question. I
have
> a customer who has 6 remote sites and a central site. Each remote site
will
> be tied into the hub (central site) via T1's. Frame relay is not an
option
> because all of the sites are within about 15 miles of the central site I
> have chosen as their hub, and their bandwidth needs are such that a T1 is
> feasible. So, now to my question. Which cisco router supports 6 or more
T1
> connections. This customer is on a limited budget, as such I will be
> deploying cisco 1750's at each remote site, however I want to tie all of
the
> remote sites into the central site, so I need a router with enough
> interfaces to support 6 or more T1's. My goal is that each remote site
will
> have default routes to the central site, and at the central site I will
> create static routes to the remote sites, as there is no need to run a
> routing protocol in this configuration. Can anyone give me a good central
> site router (cheap) that supports six or more T1 interfaces.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> SJ
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