[c-nsp] PWE3 suggestions?

[Steve Teti]

On 5/19/2011 1:22 PM, Mike wrote:
> The specfic configuration, I think, is one where
> the end user has said 1720 and t1 wic, which connects via t1 to my
> aggrgation point (an adtran ta5000, in a telco co somewhere), which then
> tunnels across my network to a router doing pwe, simply to provide ip
> routing to that end user. I don't need physical t1 ports except at the
> telco office, but it's been suggested in the docs I saw that even with
> pwe3 I still would have to have some kind of 't1' interface hardware
> somewhere in the cisco box in order to make it fly.

I may have missed something in your requirements, but why do you need 
pseudowire at all?  Couldn't you simply terminate each customer T1 as a 
separate routed PPP interface on the TA5000, then backhaul the TA5000 
into the rest of your network as "just another aggregation router"?

Steve