Aggregating T1s

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3 total messages Started by Murray Johnson Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:00

#695

Author: Murray Johnson
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:00

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We currently have one T1 serving our office and are interested in increasing
our bandwidth.  Are there any products or is there a way for me to get a
second T1, probably from a second provider, and have the two T1s work
together to form one larger connection? Ideally, this would provide
redundancy should one of my connections fail - e.g. if UUNET goes does my
other provider of my T1 will take over all of the traffic.  Any suggestions?

Re: Aggregating T1s

#691

Author: peter
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Murray Johnson <murray@alumni.nd.edu> wrote:
> We currently have one T1 serving our office and are interested in increasing
> our bandwidth.  Are there any products or is there a way for me to get a
> second T1, probably from a second provider, and have the two T1s work
> together to form one larger connection? Ideally, this would provide
> redundancy should one of my connections fail - e.g. if UUNET goes does my
> other provider of my T1 will take over all of the traffic.  Any suggestions?

Any decent router will do this if proper routing protocol is used.

I'd suggest cisco and eigrp.



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Re: Aggregating T1s

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Author: Vincent C Jones
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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There are many, many ways to achieve this, your challenge will be
in sorting out your priorities to pick the approach best for you. In
general, you will need to make a tradeoff between availability (going
with two independent ISPs) and load sharing efficiency (two links to
the same ISP). The former also requires more work and more expense.

Good luck and have fun!

Vincent C Jones

In article <3a0dbaf3$0$819@wodc7nh6.news.uu.net>,
Murray Johnson <murray@alumni.nd.edu> wrote:
>We currently have one T1 serving our office and are interested in increasing
>our bandwidth.  Are there any products or is there a way for me to get a
>second T1, probably from a second provider, and have the two T1s work
>together to form one larger connection? Ideally, this would provide
>redundancy should one of my connections fail - e.g. if UUNET goes does my
>other provider of my T1 will take over all of the traffic.  Any suggestions?
>
>


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