[123500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T1 aggregation and data center gateways
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Smith)
Tue Mar 9 20:23:57 2010
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:23:34 -0800
From: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@adhost.com>
To: Tim Sanderson <tims@donet.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi Tim:
On 3/9/10 5:00 PM, "Tim Sanderson" <tims@donet.com> wrote:
> Currently have T1 aggregation on some Cisco 7206VXR routers. Core switches and
> data center gateways on a couple of Cisco 6509's. Looking for a model that
> could collapse both functions into just two devices, one being for hardware
> redundancy. Any recommendations on a good L3 switch that is also a good T1
> aggregation device? Anyone have any experience with the newer Cisco stuff like
> the ASR 1000/7600/CRS-1?
>
> Tim Sanderson
You might want to post this over to cisco-nsp because there are lots of
options depending upon your configuration. If you're looking at port
density it seems to me you would want your router/switch to have the biggest
mux ports possible. So, you could look at OC-3 or even higher in the router
platforms. You can get up to an OC-12 channelized, but it all depends upon
your configuration.
Regards,
Mike
