Selecting hardware.

[tonywhyte87]

Hey,

I am doing a project and I am now at the stage where I have to select routers for sites. There are 5 sites, they don't require any special features but three of the offices are large between 160-300 users and the other two have 35-65 users. I am finding it hard to get information on which hardware to use. I need to allow for a growth of 50%. From what I managed to find so far I would need Cisco 3800 for the small offices and something like a 7200 for the larger offices. Could someone please give me information on what routers to use or how to decide?

Tony

[paolo bevilacqua]

These are old models. You need to specifiy what is the access circuit type and speed for each site. Numner of users mostly doesn't matter.

[tonywhyte87]

Well the sites are going to be connected via MPLS. Not sure if the ISP will be handling all MPLS or if our routers will have to provide MPLS facilities?

[paolo bevilacqua]

No matter what, you need to know the circuit speed or leased bandwidth, to choose the right router.

[tonywhyte87]

I think it will be around 10Mbps?

[paolo bevilacqua]

You can use small routers like 88x or 89x or 19xx for such speeds.

[tonywhyte87]

Do you think a 2821 would do a good job?

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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A 2821 would easily handle 10 Mbps, but as Paolo noted, a newer/smaller router would too.

[Leo Laohoo]

I think it will be around 10Mbps?

You "think"???  You need to be sure it's either 10 Mbps or not.

Will this bandwidth grow or not?