Monday, May 10, 2021

Network refresh help

We're approaching a "network refresh" in about a year or so. We're a small company - consisting of 1 office location (now almost empty) and 2 data centers - primary and backup (active/passive) - this "triangle" is connected by p2p links handled by Cisco ASR (1001 - just went end of service, last month) routers running OTV, for convenience. Each site will have it's own dedicated internet links. So all in all, we have 4 p2p (2 from the office to the primary data center) links and 4 internet links. we run ASA for internet edge (firewalling, VPN, IPS).

We have started deploying Meraki to peoples homes, but without a concentrator, they all terminate on ASAs (with only 10 so far it's not perfect, but manageable)

Anyways, if you had an opportunity to do a total redesign - what would you do in 2021 to make it "better"/more efficient? - we are not planning on "moving to the cloud" or "grow" - so it's most likely the same active/passive/office triangle as far as physical infrastructure.... with more "home/branch" office added...



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