We have a situation where we currnely have 5 locations pointing into a frame relay cloud. All the locations have T1 lines. The administrative office is one of the locations and is the hub of a hub and spoke topology, using sub-interfaces to the other 4 locations.
The administrative offive has a T1 line to the Internet via a firewall and the 4 remote locations must access the Internet through the hub router.
The administrative office has a 1600 router presently using 30% processor and 50%ram.
I am not sure exactly how much bandwidth the administrative office is using to the cloude. The remote locations have from 20-50 people in them that must access the Internet for State business, which will use some of the bandwidth.
We are going to add 4 more locations to the network with T1 lines also that must do the same State business as the other remote locations. Also, the usage I am thinking will not be real heavy. There is another State district that has 30 T1 lines pointing into a cloude using the same setup and they don't seem to be experiencing any problems.
My questions are as follows:
1. Would it be wiser to go with dedicated lines, using a router that can accept 8 or so serial interfaces? What would be the pros and cons of doing this?
2. Is there a way to check the bandwidth from the remote location to the telco switch on a Cisco router?
3.What sort of bottleneck problems could arise from using the frame-relay setup?
Thanks for any input.
Are you out there Wybenormal or any other experts?
Thanks for everything,
rkmorrow
The administrative offive has a T1 line to the Internet via a firewall and the 4 remote locations must access the Internet through the hub router.
The administrative office has a 1600 router presently using 30% processor and 50%ram.
I am not sure exactly how much bandwidth the administrative office is using to the cloude. The remote locations have from 20-50 people in them that must access the Internet for State business, which will use some of the bandwidth.
We are going to add 4 more locations to the network with T1 lines also that must do the same State business as the other remote locations. Also, the usage I am thinking will not be real heavy. There is another State district that has 30 T1 lines pointing into a cloude using the same setup and they don't seem to be experiencing any problems.
My questions are as follows:
1. Would it be wiser to go with dedicated lines, using a router that can accept 8 or so serial interfaces? What would be the pros and cons of doing this?
2. Is there a way to check the bandwidth from the remote location to the telco switch on a Cisco router?
3.What sort of bottleneck problems could arise from using the frame-relay setup?
Thanks for any input.
Are you out there Wybenormal or any other experts?
Thanks for everything,
rkmorrow
