Design Question

ycae · ‎10-16-2007

Hi all,

I have a question about designing a network. The plan is to have one HQ site with 4 branches for the start. But in the near future there will be up to 14 branches.

So what will be the best solution on a network basis, to be somehow resilient, cost effecive and some guarantee for bitrate and delay variation?

I thought that Frame-Relay would be a good choice since if I remember right it is based on ATM which has very godd QoS parameters..?

What do you think?

Thanks for your input.

Yves

Phillip Hichens · ‎10-17-2007

Hi Yves

This all depends on your country and services providers operating there.

I would recommend getting a L3 MPLS VPN, this scales very well and you can get different offerings (Service Level Agreements) from your SP wrt. availability, QoS and jitter.

Regards

Phillip

bvsnarayana03 · ‎10-17-2007

Keeping up with the technology, MPLS can be a good solution.

Depending on the load & upload / download factors, adsl is another option.

FR is also a gud solution depending on availability & is economical as well.

Point-to-point with hub-spoke topology is one more option. But expensive.

ycae · ‎10-17-2007

Thanks a lot for your Inputs.

Yves