multilinking t1s will work fine. but depending on your customer, there are lots of things between a T1 and DS3.. such as 10Mb ethernet
Steve On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Gerald wrote: > > I've got what seems to me like an innocuous question for this list... > > Someone is requesting access to about 3 mb of traffic up/dn. I figure 2 > T1s will give them the 3 Mb I need, but I'm looking for suggestions on > either efficiently combining those 2 to get the most bandwidth for their > buck or else I have to look at getting them a ds3 and scaling back to > what they need. > > Is there an good low end suggestion for making effective use of 2 T1s to > give 3 Mb of bandwidth? In practice, I've seen 2 T1s load balanced with > CEF not do very well at giving a full 3 Mb. (This was without turning on > per-packet CEF) > > I'm not personally experienced with MLPPP or mux hardware if that helps, > but I could get it set up if that's the consensus as the best option. > The NRC of something that would effectively couple the 2 T1s would > easily beat the MRC of a DS3 which I think might be overkill for just 3 > Mb. > > Thanks for suggestions and tips. > > Gerald >