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Posted by Doug McIntyre on May 13, 2008, 3:38 pm
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>I'm working on a project for a client, to connect Main Office to Branch
>Office via T1 line(s). Currently they have old Cisco routers on a T1
>carrying data traffic, and another T1 carrying voice traffic for between
>Mitel 3300 units at both Main Office and Branch Office. The project is to
>update routers, and increase bandwidth.
>The Mitel units are running a proprietary protocol currently to communicate,
>and come with an (expensive) option to upgrade this protocol license to IP.
>The idea would to tag the voice traffic (for only six Branch Office phones)
>for QoS, leaving the remaining capacity for data.
>To accomplish this, we would propose WIC-1DSU-T1-V2 cards on the interfaces
>between Main Office and Branch Office, and the native capabilities of the
>Cisco 2800 series routers. However, Cisco pre-sale support got me thinking
>when they suggested a VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1 could be useful in this situation.
>What sort of capabilities would this VWIC card give me in this situation?
>Could we somehow avoid the expensive Mitel IP upgrades, and run both
>proprietary Mitel communication and data traffic over the same T1? Thanks
I haven't used them, but how about Circuit Emulation over IP cards
NM-CEM-4TE1
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_4/interface/configuration/guide/hbbfeamo.html
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