[169033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Mon Feb 10 10:43:06 2014
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:41:18 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2/10/14, 7:17 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote:
> We are looking to double the bandwidth on one of our circuits from
> 300Mbps to 600Mbps. We currently use a Cisco 7206VXR with an NPE-G1
> card. These seem like very popular routers so I'm hoping a few people o=
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> this list have them deployed. If you or a customer have these deployed,=
> how much bandwidth have you seen them handle? This will be handling dor=
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> traffic at a college so it's mostly download. The 7206 handles our 300
> Mbps circuit just fine, but we are moving it to our 600Mbps circuit. At=
> peak we've seen the following numbers for that circuit:
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> 30 second input rate 559982000 bits/sec, 55809 packets/sec
> 30 second output rate 55429000 bits/sec, 32598 packets/sec
> 267756984712 packets input, 333325152556755 bytes, 0 no buffer
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> This is the interface that connects to our provider. As you can see its=
> almost all download traffic. Our ASR1002 handles it without a sweat but=
> I'm a little skeptical of whether the 7206 will hold up.
I wouldn't expect a g1 to do much more than half a gig...
https://supportforums.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/561469-9512/=
routerperformance.pdf
> Answers on and off list are appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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