New Site - Recommended hardware? VLAN's required

[primeaum]

Good afternoon,
I am being tasked with setting up a new site for my company. We will need at a minimum 2 VLAN's. We currently have an ASA5505 and a Cisco 2811 router that can be used. We will start with an internet T1 and add MPLS down the road. The internet T1 will have a site-to-site VPN to connect the site to our main network.

So...what additional hardware do I need? I know I need a switch or two, but I'm not sure what models I need. Do I need the 2811 if we are going with MPLS down the road? I know I can setup a switch to do the routing to the ASA...

Any ideas?
thanks in advance.

 

[burtsbees]

Your ASA can do the VLANs...just layer 2 access switches are needed. You don't even need to configure VLANs on the switches, if you don't want to. You can, for example, set an IP address on each switch, and set up the ASA ports as VLAN access ports. No trunking will be needed. But that would be a moot point, since the ASA can have more than one L3 (IP) address on the ports...so why use VLANs when you can just set up sec100 interfaces, or DMZ interfaces, and totally control routing and security between each, and the internet??

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