Branch Location Over The Internet

Tue Aug 11 18:51:27 UTC 2015

On Aug 11, 2015 11:22 AM, "Colton Conor" <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We have an enterprise that has a headquarter office with redundant fiber
> connections, its own ASN, its own /22 IP block from ARIN, and a couple of
> gigabit internet connections from multiple providers. The office is taking
> full BGP routes from tier 1 providers using a Juniper MX80.
>
> They are establishing their first branch location, and need the branch
> location to be able to securely communicate back to headquarters, AND be
> able to use a /24 of  headquarters public IP addresses. Ideally the device
> at the HQ location would hand out public IP address using DHCP to the
other
> side of the tunnel at the branch location.
>
> We know that in an ideal world it would be wise to get layer 2 transport
> connections from HQ to the branch location, but lets assume that is not an
> option. Please don't flood this thread about how it could be an option
> because it's not at this time. This setup will be temporary and in service
> for the next year until we get fiber to the branch site.
>
> Let's assume at the branch location we can get a DOCSIS cable internet
> connection from a incumbent cable provider such as Comcast, and that
> provider will give us a couple static IP address. Assume as a backup, we
> have a PPPoE DSL connection from the ILEC such as Verizon who gives us a
> dynamic IP address.
>
> What solution could we put at the HQ site and the branch site to achieve
> this? Ideally we would want the solution to load balance between the
> connections based on the connections speeds, and failover if one is down.
> The cable connection will be much faster speed (probably 150Mbps down and
> 10 Upload) compared to the DSL connection (10 download and 1 upload). If
we
> need more speed we can upgrade the cable modem to a higher package, but
for
> DSL that is the max speed so we might have to get multiple DSL lines. The
> cable solution could always be used as the primary, and the DSL connection
> could only be used as backup if that makes things easier.
>
> If you were to do this with Juniper or Cisco gear what would you have at
> each location? What technology would you use?
>

Colton,

The Cisco solution for this would be Cisco Intelligent WAN (iWAN) utilizing
ASRs and ISRs. iWAN utilizes a combination of DMVPNs and pFR to make this
happen.

Another name I've heard but have no feedback on is Viptela

> I know there is Pepewave and a couple of other software solutions that
seem
> to have a proprietary load balancing solutions developed, but I would
> prefer to use a common Cisco or Juniper solution if one exists.
>
> There will be 50 users at the branch office. There is only one branch
> location at this time, but they might expand to a couple more but under
10.

James