It really sounds like you are overloading the WAN router and core switch roles onto one device. I would suggest separating them out. For a core switch a 6500 with an ACE module should fit the bill. For a WAN router it would depend on the amount of traffic you want to pass. Could be anywhere from a 2900 up to an ASR1K.
The cost perspective of a 2nd device should not be bad if you consider that you will need SIP/SPA for E1s and another for the crypto module on the 6500 -Ben On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:23 AM, Chris Knipe wrote: > Hi All, > > I need a Layer 2 & 3 device that is fully capable of BGP, OSPF, HRSP, IPSEC, > NAT, and Clustering/Load Balancing certain inbound services. The device > needs to terminate various Serial Interfaces (up to 8 E1's) as well as > provide 10/100 Ethernet on a switching as well as routing level. > > I was thinking of a small 6500 - but I'm not sure about Serial interfaces on > the 6500. Is there any other devices that I could possibly look at. I > would like to hear some recommendations. > > -- > > Regards, > Chris Knipe > _______________________________________________ > 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/
