[c-nsp] Best solution for WAN backup

David Rothera david.rothera at gmail.com
Thu May 26 14:50:15 EDT 2011


ASA's have better throughput when encrypting traffic than routers as routers have to do all the work on CPU where as the ASA's will have dedicated crypto hardware.

What kind of speeds would you need over the VPN?

David


On 26 May 2011, at 19:18, Scott Voll wrote:

> I have a Metro Ethernet connection to all my sites but they are all hub and
> spoke.  if I lose a link that site goes down.
> 
> I have basic ISP service available at each of my remote sites and would like
> to setup a backup link over a VPN connection.  I talked to someone, and I
> can't remember what they said.  I thought about ASA's but they said using a
> router with VPN service was a better option.  Can anyone tell me what they
> were talking about?  they said with the routers you have better options for
> Routing.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Scott
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