[12017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: perf #s for GRF vs 7500 Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Wed Aug 27 00:10:59 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>
To: "joseph j. kim" <jokim@ipcom.com>
cc: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970826185014.10646A-100000@server.ipcom.com>
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, joseph j. kim wrote:
==>So, who's numbers should we believe or feel are more appropriate to real
==>world situations?
==>
==>> Comparing GateD to IOS becomes more of a religious preference than
==>> anything else. I'm content knowing both, truth be told.
==>>
==>> > maybe someone can post some performance numbers.
Tolly's report didn't use CEF/FIB switching, and used classical
(centralized) switching. Ascend paid Tolly for the test anyway--the only
*true* test would be one from Data Communications or similar.
/cah
