[c-nsp] Cisco 6500 VLAN Question

[Chris Gotstein]

We use an appliance to control bandwidth and setup packages for our 
customers, so it needs to be in the location it's at so I can feed it 
multiple connections from different areas.  It wasn't as big of a deal 
when all our connections came through a single backhaul, but now we are 
adding additional fiber connections that all need to go through this one 
box.

On 1/23/2013 1:27 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 23/01/2013 17:48, Chris Gotstein wrote:
>> There is going to be a lot, as this will be carrying 90% of our ISP
>> customers traffic.  It's the aggregation point for all our customers
>> connecting through the core to our internet routers.  Would i be better off
>> using a separate aggregation switch, then dumping into the 6506? Was trying
>> to save money by using the 6506.
>
> I think you would be better off rethinking your approach to this problem.
> There are plenty of tools for bandwidth control, but hairpinning your
> traffic through a single point of failure is one approach I would avoid -
> particularly in a service provider environment.  In general, you would be
> much better off using ingress / egress qos as close as possible to the
> customer.
>
> Nick
>
>

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