Looking for Suggetion

[Durgaprasad Kallakuri]

Hi Team ,

I am looking for a Router that can support around 5000 users.. 

I am having 1 Gbps Leased line Internet connection and i want to provide internet for my users using Wi-Fi.. I will increase the Bandwidth as per my requirement, also i want to know if we have the mechanism to control the bandwidth to my users as required. 

Please Suggest.

Thanks in Advance. 

Durga Prasad  

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Number of users is, more or less, useless unless you know the expected bandwidth needs for those users.

You want the capability to control bandwidth for each user and possibly for up to about 5,000 such users?

[Durgaprasad Kallakuri]

Hi Joseph ,

Thanks for response. Yes, have more users like 5000. As this is educational institution, we have more students connecting to WiFi.. I can increase the bandwidth if needed, But i want the router which is capable to serve the internet to all the users, in additionally i need the ability to manage the bandwidth to the students. 

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Do you need bandwidth per student or bandwidth for students as a whole?

[Durgaprasad Kallakuri]

As  A whole ..

[Joseph W. Doherty]

As a whole, as long a you have some way to identify the group, most all Cisco routers can police or shape traffic to them.

As to Cisco routers that can support 1 Gbps WAN, the 4451 ISR with performance license can, the 4461 with its basic license might (it supports up to 1.5 Gbps, but can be upgraded to 3 Gbps with the performance license), other smaller 4K ISRs, with their boost license might support your 1 Gbps WAN (had to predict without knowing your traffic and/or config), 

Some of the 1000 ISRs also come close, as also perhaps do the Catalyst 8100 and 8200 routers.

The lower end 1000 ASRs, can easily handle a single gig WAN link.

For which of the above, is most suitable, depends on your budget, and what other features you might need.

[Blue_Bird]

The following example provides one way/method of controlling or limitting the Bandwidth using  polices the inside interface to 30Mbps.  It also utilizes a fair queue mechanism so that all subnets are queued equally yet can use the entire purchased rate in the absence of competing traffic.

access-list 101 permit ip any a.a.a.a w.w.w.w ## Subnet A

access-list 102 permit ip any b.b.b.b w.w.w.w ## Subnet B

access-list 103 permit ip any c.c.c.c w.w.w.w ## Subnet C

class-map subnet-a
match access-group 101

class-map subnet-b
match access-group 102

class-map subnet-c
match access-group 103

policy-map subnets
class-map subnet-a
  bandwidth percent 33
class-map subnet-b
  bandwidth percent 33
class-map subnet-c
  bandwidth percent 33
exit

policy-map physical
class class-default
  police 30000000 conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
  service-policy subnets
exit

int fa0/1
service-policy output physical
exit

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[Joseph W. Doherty]

BTW, your policy won't work as you describe.