I couldn't imagine someone purchasing that many seperate lines from a carrier. If you have 188 T-1s coming into the customer premise I believe the piece of equipment you are looking for is called a multiplexer. If you are saying they need @ 300M bandwidth I would have to say your best bet would be to purchase 2 OC-3 circuits. In that case I reccomend the GSR12000 series routers. (We just built out a superhub of a huge VPN using 2 of those things to terminate the OCs and those things are working like a champ. We are planning to upgrade to OC-12 in the near future so using anything else was kindof out of the picture for us except for a Juniper and who wants one of those things in their data center -just kidding) If the 12000 is way too pricey, and you would never need to go to that large of a circuit a 7500 should serve your purpose by using ATM OC-3 cards on the front and FastEs on the back. Heck why don't you just go down to your local MicroCenter and pick up one of those 12008s with a couple of GigE cards in it, and call up one of our sales people and say you want GigE IDE to your site. We are very soon planning to offer Ethernet to the CPE. Cool idea I think.
>>>Brian Why can't we just go back to being UUNET? >From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" >Reply-To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: multiple Individual T1 termination --urgent [7:47944] >Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:52:57 GMT > > >Hi Group, > > > >I have a client who needs 188 T1 (all 1.544Mb serial lines) terminations > >to be done on the central site. > >Network is hub and spoke fashion. > >Pls advise the suitable Cisco router/routers on the central site, for > >this purpose. > > >I'm really puzzled what problem they are trying to solve. Certainly, >the carrier providing the local loop has these DS1's multiplexed onto >faster internal faciliies (e.g., 28 per DS-3, 84 or so on an OC-3, >168 or so on an OC-12). > >I've had a situation where I had numbers approaching these, and >indeed a fair number were not conventional data but POTS, >videoconferencing, bulk crypto, etc. The answer was to put a fully >redundant Stratacom switch in front of the routers, PBX, etc., and >have (in my case) two redundant OC-3's coming into the switch. > >Since there are now CBR cards for some routers, the switch might no >longer be necessary. The question still comes up is whether the 188 >DS-1s truly need separate interfaces at the hub, and why. > >This sort of port density is going to eat you alive if it's a real >requirement. If I had to do it, though, I'd certainly try for a >hierarchy of routers -- 7500's or better taking high speed trunks, >and connecting via Fast Ethernet to 3600's or such with lots of T1 >interfaces. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=48039&t=47944 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
