On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, amanda wrote:
What is the best configuration of TC box to order to initially connect a newly-leased PRI for 23 incoming dial-in trunks (mostly V.90 users but some ISDN hopefully someday) in our local (not remote) POP such that we can throw away these blasted V.34 modems and start offering our customers V.90 dial-in? I would love to also be able to capture ANI per customer for our logs, and to start running RADIUS authentication on either Solaris or NT (ugh) boxes. I guess we could keep the four Cisco 2511 routers we have, but would we be better off using the TC router card??
First, I agree w/Brian's reply from earlier. Chassis with a NMC, PowerSupplies (I went with dual 70A ones), a HiperARC and at least one HiperDSP. HiperDSP is like your modem card; it takes a PRI (or CT1) in one end and splits it out into 23 (24 for CT1) interfaces which are presented to the HiperARC. The HiperARC is your router card, it takes stuff on those interfaces and puts it on your ethernet (among other things like radius auth, ppp negiotiation, etc). The HiperDSPs also take ISDN calls, so you'll be able to support ISDN as soon as you install. They'll capture the ANI for you, but know that it's not really ANI... it's CLID (caller_id; can be blocked by calling party). They can auth & account with Radius; pretty much your choice of servers. I'm a fan of Radiator...have it running on linux myself, storing its data in SQL databases (PostgresSQL). If you're interested, Radiator can be found at <http://www.open.com.au/radiator/>.
either a used vendor or to some snazzy USR ISP-friendly factory rep to buy our first unit!
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