Need remote office advice

[180990]

I'm setting up remote offcie with VoIP using Nortel ERS-5520 as an edge switch. The traffic will go through MPLS network with 2MB guaranteed bandwith for QoS traffic. My question is. What kind of router/switch I should use to connect my ERS-5520 edge switch to MLPS network? Should I go with Nortel or Cisco device and what are the challeges to configuring such connection.

Any input is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance to those who have responded to this thread

Wesley

 

[curtismo]

Questions:

What type of WAN connection will you be using for your MPLS connection?

- MLPPP (multiple T1s)
- DS3
- Multilink Frame Relay
- MetroE

How will your provider provision the link? Our MPLS provider uses both Frame Relay and MLPPP, so you don't need an MPLS-aware router. We then tag the WAN packets with Diffserv (DSCP) that the provider looks for. You will want to shape this traffic on the ingress.

Since we (by corporate standards) are a Nortel shop we use both the Nortel SR1002 and SR3120 router platform. The 3120s have been a rock-solid platform, the 1002s, uh, not so robust.

If you want an alternative, I have heard good things about the Adtran Netvanta line.

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

You don't really need a separate router if you have a 5520 switch - it can do your routing and QoS for you at the remote office.

 

[180990]

Thanks VinceWhirlwind for you comments

What I'm trying to accomplish here is.
Have 5520 route my data and voice traffic to corporate office.
I want 5520 to use ADAC-LLDP to provision IP phones and QoS, but according to one source I cannot use this feature if I want to perform routing on it. ADAC-LLDP is intendent to work with layer 2 and all the vlan routing should be done by upstream router.

The remote site is not too big it will only have about 30 ip phones and one or two wirless ip phones.
You said that I don't really need a sepparate router. If so, would you share some more info on how to accomplish this.


I would really appreciate that