Okay so we're looking at possibly making our network uber-redundant. I've been asked to piece together possibilities/costs associated with having dual routers, dual firewalls, switches, etc, etc. Some of this stuff we already have to a certain extent. i'm just a bit hung up on the router redundancy so any help would be appreciated.
Current Environment (starting from outside; coming in)
- Two T1 lines (we have ASN # & use BGP with AT&T & Savvis as ISPs)
- Cisco 2691 router
- Cisco PIX 515e firewall (restricted)
- Cisco Catalyst 4507r switch (dual supervisor engines w/hot failover & dual power supplies)
- Internal Network
Proposed Environtment
- Two T1 lines (as above)
- Dual Cisco 1800 series routers with HSRP? *This is where I'm stuck. I'm not sure exactly what model router we're getting b/c we're letting A&T manage the router & the order hasn't been fully placed. So I don't even know if this is feasible.
- Dual Cisco ASA 5510 security appliances
- Cisco 4507r Catalyst switch
- Internal Network
So basically, i'm stuck on the dual routers for hardware redundancy. Does the HSRP provide hardware redundancy? It's just a protocol right? But we want something so that if the primary router loses power or gets fried it'll automatically trip over to our standby router. Is it better to look at somethign like the FatPipe boxes?
If ya'll see anything that I'm missing (aside from the routers) by all means let me know.
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