[cisco-nas] terminating DSL VLANs/Tunnels (spec. bell nexxia, canada)

[Dennis Peng]

What kind of tunnels are you talking about? Are these L2TP tunnels? If
so, the 3550 doesn't support L2TP termination.

Dennis

Dave [Hawk-Systems] [dave at hawk-systems.com] wrote:
> (may be OT in that it doesn't specifically reference a cisco nas, but it deals
> in access provisisioning of sirts so am hoping it will reach the right audience)
> 
> we are about to terminate a 100baset connection from bell nexxia up here over
> which they will be sending 120 tunnels from the various redback switches to us
> spread over 12 VLANs.
> this will connect all the various DSL clients to our network for us to route
> traffic out our internet pipe (datacenter).
> 
> We are looking at having this terminate into a Cisco 3550 EMI to have all the
> VLANs and Tunnel switching and so forth.  This would provide sufficient port
> density for the DNS, Radius, and so forth servers wthat will also occupy the
> rack in the datacenter.
> 
> Had some brief speculation on this earlier, and before actually purchasing,
> wanted to make sure that this would more than likely handle our needs.  Can
> anyone either with first hand experience with Bell or other such DSL service
> links provide some insight and/or recommendations?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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