>How do I restrict one of my customers to 1/4 or 1/2 of a T1? Here's my
>current setup (t1-wise):
>
>T1 ---> Prelude CSU/DSU ---> PM2ER ---> the rest of my network
>
>The customer in question has his own class C. Is there a Livingston
>product that will allow me to "chop up" my bandwidth? I'm looking for
>something that will cost less than $2000.00 (USA). I've seen the
>Packetshaper from Packeteer, and it's exactly what I want. But it costs
>too much. If I bought a "real" router (sorry Livingston, you know what I
>mean), could I do what I want to do?
Yes, for instance we are doing traffic shaping of a 10 MB ethernet
down to 256K for one of our customers. We use a Cisco 2514 (you have
to have IOS 11.2 or above for the traffic shaping). Then changing
bandwidth is just a command line configuration away (This uses one router
and no CSU's). We have also done this by using 2 routers and 2 CSU's
You can get 2 OR-HS's for instance and 2 low end CSU's. (I even got it
to work with one 2514 by directing packets from one ether/serial port
set out to a CSU, across dry T-1, another CSU, and into another
ether/serial port set thus eliminating one router). By running a short
dry T-1 and controlling the channels you can also throttle his bandwidth.
Or you can use a BSD box and two ethernet cards. All of these solutions
should come in at the same or lower cost than most dedicated throttle
boxes.