Hi Tikiri If you can manage with only Layer 3 capable routing (Layer 4 is Transport = TCP/UDP right?), look at a suitable Layer 3 switch. Allied Telesyn here in NZ make the Rapier 16fi which is 16 100BASE-FX fibre ports and a WAN interface. You can VLAN the interfaces and add some routes between them, if you find you need a higher PPS you can whack a router/PC on the expansion ports. Regards James -- James Spooner WAND Group - The University of Waikato NZ WAND Hardware Lab - G.1.32 Email: jbs3(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Ph: +64 7 8384466x6651 Fax: +64 7 858 5095 Mob: +64 21 447638 WWW: http://voodoo.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~jbs3 On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tikiri Wicks wrote:
Be gratefull if anyone can give me a pointer here...
I need a router with 14 fibre ports. The thing is I don't want to spend 25,000 Plus on a router like a Cisco 4000 series or a top of the line Nortel. We don't need terrabits of routing capability and hundreds of wan ports etc.. What I'm looking for is a router than can do full layer 4 routing on 14 fibres, each running at no more than 100 Mbps.
Any ideas ?
Cheers
Tikiri