Will the T1s be aggregated onto bearers? STM-1 for example? If so, I imagine ASR1k would probably be around the right area as a first guess.
--Daniel Holme On 3 Dec 2010, at 18:16, Rick Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We are in the planning stages for a conversion to an MPLS infrastructure, we > have about 3,000 connections on this statewide network which spans 3 major > carriers territory. We expect we will wind up with one vendor at the core. > Assuming vendor A wins the core we expect we will have to provide hardware to > aggregate connections from vendor B and C's territory and pass those > connections on to the core via Ethernet. > > Our expectation is that we will have 2 types of last mile connections to our > customers - Ethernet and MPPP via T1's. Of course our preference would be > Ethernet for all of the WAN links but at this time that is not possible due > to the rural nature of portions of our state. We expect perhaps 50 - 100 T1's > at a given aggregation point. > > I am in need of advice on what products are available for high density > aggregation of the T1's. I am currently researching Cisco products but do not > want to limit my scope to Cisco only. I would welcome any suggestions or > advice on this. > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions > rick > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
