Hey Guys,

This sounds all well and good but if you did everything the way Cisco says to do it you would need a Cisco 3845 at every location to fit all of their network modules into the branch router. CME, wireless network module, 10/100 network module, websense network module, WAAS network module and on and on. Let's analyze CapEx and OpEx for that one. What happens when the branch router fails? Your phone system and data network is down and you are trying to open a ticket with TAC to get a new box all properly built out to your office within 4 or even 2 hours with your pricey SMARTnet contracts. The plot thickens with this scenario. The all-in-one router sounds good on paper but shoving everything inside of a router chassis is not always the answer and what IOS version will support all these modules in the router together? LOL

I love Cisco products but its getting a bit ridiculous.

Justin Lofton
Systems Engineer

Tredent Data Systems, Inc.
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