T1 Dedicated vs. Cable/DSL over VPN
Trying to figure out which direction to go with connecting off campus locations. We are able to afford T1 Dedicated links at 1.5 MB at 243/month. Colleagues are suggesting using DSL 8 MB or Mediacob Cable at 8 MB with VPN. Of course our Internet pipe is congested during the day which is our main vpn connection. What would be the better solution for 12 People connecting back to campus.
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Then your next step is a partial T3 which is ALOT of money... you might see if the ISP has some better bandwidth.. maybe fiber..
Also on the VOIP add a voice gateway on their end for analog calls so it is not using the bandwidth.
If you are in the US, ask your cable provider about MetroEthernet.
What's your budget?
What's your budget?
You can connect all remote sites back to the main campus by using MPLS T1s. It supports QoS, so once properly configured, your ip phones will have priority. These sites will not be using your Internet port for inbound connections, so the fact that the Internet port gets congested won't have the kind of impact you described above. MPLS should also be cheaper than private lines.
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preferrably 200 - 400 dollars per month on budget. In terms of MetroEthernet .. We are based in a rural area and Metro does not sound like an option.. What is MetroEthernet??
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The Metro and MPLS are not available to our organization we live in the middle of a corn field but reliability is a factor with through put being another issue. We do have a cable connection we use to test out VPN and firewall issues and were thinking about using these 2 in pair where we send port 80 to the cable modem and anything destined for campus through the T1.. Thanks
Brian
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We have gone with combing a unused cable internet conection with our T1 connection as a test at this point and time. The technologies of MetroEthernet and MPLS are not available in our area unfortunately. Thanks to all for your suggestions...
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