Bandwidth and Throughput

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Terry

Anyone

I have 5 centers that are connected to the corporate
office through a VPN (site to site)using T1 lines.

Near Future: New Medical System: Each center will generate
approx 10GB of data a day that will go back to corporate
for storing and retrieving. (The data created throughout
the day from the medical scans). On top of this 10GB a
day each user(Approx 5 per center) will generate traffic
as well. The users will have all data they create stored
at corporate. Each user will use Office, Outlook,
Internet explorer and the medical software. We will have
outside access to the corporate network for the doctors to
come in and perform schedulings. We currently have T1
lines located at each center. The new medical software
will be implemented by the ned of the 4th quarter.
Corporate has approx 20 users. Future growth is expecte
by adding more centers. Some new corporate people will e
added but at a slower pace than the centers.

Goal: We want to manage all services, network resources,
Data stores, Group Policy, etc... from the corporate
office and maintain a excellent throughput. We dont want
the network (WAN or LAN) to cause a productivity issue.

My Question: What bandwidth and throughput would you
recommend and what cisco equipment would you recommend to
handle this type of load? Is a VPN site to site the best
way for the centers to communicate back to corporate?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
 
That should be ok.

From what I can tell (Im based in the UK) but T1 is the defacto standard in
the US (99% availability) - we have to suffer DSL 512k connections over
here.....

The only other option is going Fractional T3 which is much more expensive
and not available in all areas. You should be ok with that

Regards
Paul.
 
IPSEC within Win2K can be at a strength of 56 bits or 168
bits. Not sure about 128 bit IPSEC..?
 
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