Which router can support 300 computers and offers few features mentioned:

[dvnizr@gmail.com]

We currently have about 55 end points (computers) and are going into a facility with 300 end points.

I am looking for a router that I can buy right now to support the 55 and then scale up to 300 when we move to the new facility within 6 months, without having me to buy a new router.

Features I am looking for are:
- Fail over currently and load balancing after moving to new facility
- content filtering with groups - groups of computers with full access, groups of computers with mild restrictions (no porn), groups of computers with full restrictions (no porn, no torrents, etc)
- VPN for remote accessing the LAN resources (intranet sites etc) while traveling out of the office
- QoS for voice traffic since we make VoIP calls using - Skype and 8x8 (similar to Vonage, they provide their telephony hardware adapters and we connect physical phones to them to make calls)

Which router and switches would you recommend for such an environment? Can the RV082 scale upto 300 computers and run 24x7? If not, which routers can?

Thanks,
David

 

[sfx2000]

Cisco 2600 is a good place to start I suppose... and St. Bernard has a good content filtering option...

Funny - I deal with SOHO networks on the home side, but megascale networks on the work/carrier side - there we use Cisco, Juniper, F5 Big IP Carrier Grade boxes, with Proofpoint and Cloudmark for content protection for our users - probably a bit out of your budget...

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Seems like duplicate post...to this one, which has answers
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=7301&page=2

 

[bendsley]

We currently have about 55 end points (computers) and are going into a facility with 300 end points.

I am looking for a router that I can buy right now to support the 55 and then scale up to 300 when we move to the new facility within 6 months, without having me to buy a new router.

Features I am looking for are:
- Fail over currently and load balancing after moving to new facility
- content filtering with groups - groups of computers with full access, groups of computers with mild restrictions (no porn), groups of computers with full restrictions (no porn, no torrents, etc)
- VPN for remote accessing the LAN resources (intranet sites etc) while traveling out of the office
- QoS for voice traffic since we make VoIP calls using - Skype and 8x8 (similar to Vonage, they provide their telephony hardware adapters and we connect physical phones to them to make calls)

Which router and switches would you recommend for such an environment? Can the RV082 scale upto 300 computers and run 24x7? If not, which routers can?

Thanks,
David

If you can swing it, something like the Cisco 2800/2900 ISR series are good for this. Even the 1800/1900 ISR series can probably handle this ok.