Connecting a BCM50 To a BCM400

[HUCHIMAMA]

Hey Folks- Customer currently has a BCM400 at their home office and is opening a remote site and we are going to install a BCM50 at the remote site.

My question is the customer currently has a Frame relay circuit from the home site to remote site. Can we use that circuit as well for connecting the two BCM's together. Or would it be btter to go with a seperate VPN connection or MPLS circuit?

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[Crowtalks]

As long as the CIR on the Frame has sufficient bandwidth and you use QoS, then they should be able to share the network without a problem.

 

[DigitelD]

My personal opinion is that an MPLS network is the way to go. It works great. But, it is not the only way to network.

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[Crowtalks]

MPLS works great as long as you have MPLS compatible routers on each end.

 

[HUCHIMAMA]

Ok if I use Frame or MPLS would I just use the standard IP Trunk Keycodes then?

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[Crowtalks]

Yup.

Add the keycodes, assign the trunks IPs on the respective networks, set up your QoS on a shared network, make sure the codecs match on both ends and go for it.