Cell Relay Archive

["Ronald A. McCormick" <ramccor@ais.net>]

Steve,

	The good news is that you have described a scenario which most ATM
vendors should support.  I personally prefer FORE Systems, they seem to
be in the (Sorry for upcoming pun)
forefront of ATM technologies.  They are consistantly reviewed as best
in class in the various bake-offs.  There support is excellent and thier
hardware is very reasonably priced.
Ensure that your equipment, no matter who the vendor is, supports
redundant LANE services and redundant ATM ARP servers.  Without those,
failure of those devices leads to a MUCH larger (Possibly your entire
network) outage.

					-Ron McCormick
					ramccor@ais.net

Steve Minya wrote:
> 
> We are going to be building a new network, and have decided to use
> ATM.  It will start fairly small (~20 stations with 3-4 servers,
> internet server/access, PBX), but will grow.
> 
> We are interested in 24 and 155 Mbps speeds, and require dual-homing
> and load-balancing capabilities with dual NIC's in each workstation/4
> in each server, and multiple switches.
> 
> One of the most important criteria is the ability to change the system
> on the fly, with workstations being added and removed without
> system/users downtime.
> 
> OS's will be NT and Netware(for Unix workstations).
> 
> Any positive/negative experiences, or suggestions with information
> links would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank You
> Steve Minya (steveminya@mindpring.com)
> Business Connections (bizconnections@mindspring.com)