VPN/Firewall and a T1 connection

[pbsamson]

If we have a T1 connection (1.54 Mbps)and put a firewall with 60 Mbps throughput for VPN, what would be the resulting effective speed of the connections? Would that be better than a VPN at 5Mbps?

Do it change anything?

And can someone indicate where I can get more technical info on this?

Thanks a lot

[mostiguy]

the t1 is your bottleneck - it doesn't matter how fast your internal network is, you are limited by the t1.

It is tough to say what actual throughput would be - IPSec does have some overhead, but some of cisco's gear supports compression for ipsec connections.