[c-nsp] Advice on Terminating T1s

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Richey wrote:

> I've got a 7206 with an NPE-150 with a PA-MC-T3 and a 1 Port 100Mb FE card.
> The most traffic I see out of this router is about 8 to 12mb during peek
> times.   Would adding a second PA-MC-T3 to this router be too much for it?
> Going forward sales is adding about 15 to 20 T1s a month to the network.
> Any suggestions on what to start looking at?  At what point would you stop
> using multiple 7200s and go to a bigger box?

NPE-150 is pretty old.  I've seen 3 PA-MC-T3 and then some on a non-VXR 
with NPE-225.  What's your CPU load like?  I'd wild guess that you could 
service at least one more PA-MC-T3 (maybe more) with that router.

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