Bonding/load balancing T1s and cable access?

[jakkwb]

Hello all,

Just curious what your experience has been and what gear you are using/ reccommend for this:

Bonding and load balancing 2 T1s, 1 + cable internet access (will start with one pipe, and add more later). These are, of course, from different providers.

I want to be able to combine bandwidth of all sources to give my customers more.

Thank you.

[danielRay]

which technology are u using??

[PBase001]

What do you want to do exactly?

If the sole purpose is more bandwidth than might 1 provider servicing a T3 connection make more sense? Start with a T1 and change your service as required.

If you also want reductancy than there are devices out there that will do that for you with 2 WAN lines, like T3 for your main internet and cable for redundancy/backup.

More than 2 WAN lines you might be looking at much more expensive devices.

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For equipment I've used...
For 2 WAN Links I've installed the SonicWALL firewall devices. They have different scaling models dependent on the size of your organization, so check their website at www.sonicwall.com.

It supports load balancing and/or failover of up to 2 WAN links.

I've done 3 T1's, but that was some years ago and I no longer remember the brand of the equiptment anymore. I'll update if I remember.

[joey3k]

At work we had a T1 and DSL line; we wanted to loadbalance using the T1 and DSL but unfortunately could not. I believe this was due to the limitation of the Cisco device we were using.

Instead, the DSL was used solely as failover incase the T1 line went down....