[c-nsp] Redback SMS 1800 replacement

[Joe Maimon]

Kristofer Sigurdsson wrote:

> 2006/1/18, Matthew Crocker <matthew at crocker.com>:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>  I have a Redback SMS 1800 handling a DS-3 ATM circuit running PPPoE
>>& Bridged Ethernet DSL customer,  Approx 50 PVCs,  1k users,
>>20mbps.   What  cisco box would you recommend I get to replace
>>this?    Ideally I would like power & process redundancy and the
>>ability to grow to OC-3 ATM in the future.   Optionally it would be
> 
> 

Is the desire for oc3 the reason you want to replace the redback? You 
havent mentioned...?


> 7301 is out of the picture in favour of a 7200 (unless you'll settle
> with a switch in front of it and a VLAN trunk).

Hardly settling since the NPE-G1 will not do 3gig line rate anyways.

> 
> 
>>I'm thinking a 7301 with broadband licensing would work pretty well
>>but I don't have any experience running PPPoE on Cisco gear.
> 

Works pretty well -- use bba-group.

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