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Re: OC3 Router

  • From: Dan Armstrong
  • Date: Fri Nov 21 20:35:49 2003 
I know this is not relevant, but the humour is perfectly apropos as a
reply.

This was the best "manager" call the support line of the day story:

<abridged for clarity>

"We need an OC-192".

"My god, why?"

"We need to be able to support at least 192 simultaneous users to our
website"

"Uh Huh..... well......



:-)

Dan.




Chris Strandt wrote:

> I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm looking for a cisco border router as a backup for our existing.
>
> We have a 7206VXR with NPE400.  The only thing we have in the router is
> a OC3c POS card on one side and a multimode Gig-Ethernet on the other.
>  We are not doing BGP with this router (upstream is annoucing for us).
>  Is there a vendor who can tell us the minimum we need to do this for
> emergency situations, or someone on the list who can recommend a cisco
> solution that can meet these requirments?
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris Strandt
> Liquid Web Inc.