Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links

[Scott Whyte <swhyte () cisco com>]

Jesper,

You might consider MLP (multi-link PPP), with VIP2/50's.

If you do go with an IMUX, I definitely recommend a HSSI to the routers, rather than Ethernet, unless the Ethernet is 
full-duplex.  I've seen really poor performance due to collisions on the Ethernets at either end because the middle is 
actually 16Mbps full-duplex...

Scott


At 12:57 AM 9/18/98 , Jesper Skriver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How would you loadshare over many (>6) parallel E1 links. Currently we
> do it by connecting them directly to the Cisco's in each end, and do
> CEF based per-packet loadsharing, it works fine, but support a max of
> 6 E1's ...
>
> I've been thinking om something similar to the Larscom inverse MUX
> (http://www.larscom.com/t3ft3/t3_megae.htm), but this one only support
> 4 E1's, then I can use multiple i-mux's and loadshare over the 8M links
> they provide, but it seems like a poor solution.
>
> Yes, I do know that a E3 would be a far better choice, but our ADM 
> (Add-Drop-Multiplexer??) at this specific location only support
> E1's :-(
>
> /Jesper
>
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>
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