Specifications

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Cisco AS5x00 Case Study for Basic IP Modem Services
11/24/1999
Section 1 Network Design and Case Study Overview
Network Service Definition
Network Service Definition
Based on the design choices in Table 1-1, each company creates its own network-to-user service
definition. Table 1-2 provides the definition for each company.
Table 1-2 User-to-Network Service Definitions
Maui Onions Requirements THEnets Requirements
Line requirements
1
for the next 5 years:
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3 months: 25 lines
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1 year: 50 lines
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5 years: 100 lines
1. The line requirement is calculated by dividing the number of users by the user-to-line ratio during
busy hours.
Line requirements for the next 5 years:
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3 months: 500 lines
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1 year: 2000 lines
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5 years: 100,000 lines
One Cisco AS5300 is required for the
first year.
One Cisco AS5800 is required for the
first three months.
Analog lines and modems. Analog lines and modems.
Supported operating systems: Windows
95, 98, and NT.
Maui Onions controls the client types
used by its employees.
Supported operating systems: Windows
95, 98, NT, UNIX, and MacOS.
THEnet offers Internet access to all
client types.
AAA is the highest technology priority. V.90 modem performance is the highest
technology priority.
Dial-in only support. Dial-in only support.
EXEC shell and PPP session support. EXEC shell and PPP session support.
No multilink PPP support. Multilink PPP support in a stacked
solution for deployment in a future
phase of this project.
PPP timeouts will not be supported. PPP timeouts will not be supported.
Remote AAA TACACS+ server to store
users’ passwords. Users can change
their passwords by using the EXEC
shell.
Remote AAA RADIUS server to store
users’ passwords. Users can change
their passwords by using the
Cisco Secure web page.
Per-user attribute definitions
(authorization) are supported.
Per-user attribute definitions are not
supported.
A network element management server
is needed.
A network element management server
is needed.