Bandwidth Segregation

[james1982]

Hi

My knowledge of cisco isnt brilliant but I would appreciate any advise on the following scenario:-

My company is in the process of purchasing a 2 meg leased line.
We propose to share this line with a sister company, there offices are next to ours.
I somehow need to segregate te bandwidth 50/50...i.e we have 1 meg for our use, they have 1 meg for there use.

Can you advise if this is possible, and what hardware would be required / recommended for this?

Thanks in advance

James

 

[North323]

policy based routing. set up your network with 10.10.x.x for your company and 10.11.x.x for the other. set up acls to route and qos by network

 

[james1982]

thanks
can you recommend some possible models of routers that would be suitable???

 

[james1982]

more detail, 1 company has only 15ish employees but does alot of collaboration, video conferencing etc.
The other company has 60ish employess - primarily standard internet access etc

 

[North323]

pretty much any cisco router will do policy based routing. but if they do a lot of video conferencing, you may want a layer 3 switch (3500) and do some QoS because video will take up all their 1meg pipe rather fast. do you have IP phones?

 

[james1982]

yes we have IP phones but no voice will be going over the link, sorry i intially said a 2meg line I actually meant a 10meg.

 

[North323]

ok then you should not have an issue. i would implement QoS as well to be safe