One fibre line - Multiple local networks

[copacetic]

We need to get fibre installed in a new office location.

I posed the question to a sales guy of having a handful of networks to log on to (for various sections of the company) and he indicated that this would not be possible, and each section would need a separate line.

This strikes me as a bit odd / what would the typical solutions be to such a query?

 

[Geoff.D]

A common high capacity fibre connection into a company office block makes complete sense! ( make it two connections for complete redundancy). Don't play around, go for a minimum of a 1 Gb/s connection (full duplex, symmetrical). THEN consolidate all the capacity requirements of the various departments.

DFA ( and others) have such products available.

 

[SwiftFibreGuy]

Are the networks locations physically separate? As in across the road / office park or different floors (separately by unrelated businesses)? Can you run cable between these locations?

What I imagine you are asking, is actually running multiple virtual networks, like a public-facing and private-facing network, or VPNs for departments. As long as they can tie back to a single point (network equipment like a switch), then all this is fully possible with a single line.

Its only if the locations are unable to link together either via wireless or wire that you need independent installs.

 

[DionH]

You can easily do this using a Mikrotik Routerboard. Use the first port for PPPoE and the rest of the ports to whatever internal IP range you want to give out. So port 3 can be 192.168.3.x port 4 192.168.4.x and so on. With a bit of research you can have multiple offices, each on their own network, with their own bandwidth allocation and a half decent firewall.

 

[PBCool]

Are you saying you would like a single fibre line and use it with multiple ISPs?
Or you want one common line shared between multiple local networks?

 

[savage]

Are you saying you would like a single fibre line and use it with multiple ISPs?
Or you want one common line shared between multiple local networks?

Either is technically possible. It depends on whether the operator wants to come to the party to configure it.

 

[copacetic]

Thanks for all the responses: For clarity, it's a very simple setup - Handful of users, all in one physical office (with a potential second office in the same business park). Within the one office there are divisions of the company that in practice give the appearance of being one and the same with some outward-facing division in terms of SSIDs and guest accounts, etc, required.

In any event, when I asked about this I was told the only way to do this was to have separate lines, which struck me as utter nonsense from the provider in question. I just got a call from them and indeed it's a simple matter to set things up as we need it. Ultimately, it was just a miscommunication for the most part.

 

[PBCool]

Thanks for all the responses: For clarity, it's a very simple setup - Handful of users, all in one physical office (with a potential second office in the same business park). Within the one office there are divisions of the company that in practice give the appearance of being one and the same with some outward-facing division in terms of SSIDs and guest accounts, etc, required.

In any event, when I asked about this I was told the only way to do this was to have separate lines, which struck me as utter nonsense from the provider in question. I just got a call from them and indeed it's a simple matter to set things up as we need it. Ultimately, it was just a miscommunication for the most part.

So best bet is to link the offices with internal fibre, then get a single uplink with an ISP as the majority of the costs are the layer2, from there you can split the service between businesses or not, use a burstable model between either. Drop me a mail on paul at cisp.co.za we have done this a few times.