[186445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ahmed Munaf)
Fri Dec 18 22:13:06 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ahmed Munaf <ahmed.dalaali@hrins.net>
In-Reply-To: <E48CBD02-54E8-46D9-B08D-36CDD3F01DE7@netideainc.ca>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:37:28 +0300
To: Netideainc <eriks@netideainc.ca>
Cc: "Nanog@Nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Thanks, we are speaking with few vendors and A10 one of them. they offer =
the model Thunder 3030S, the price was good in comparison with the =
specifications of this model.=20
its good to know that it works good at your university.=20
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Netideainc <eriks@netideainc.ca> wrote:
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> At $dayjob$ (which is a university) we spoke to several vendors and =
eventually gave A10 Networks Thunder 3030 a test drive.
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> It satisfied our requirements and fit our budget. Most of our NAT =
traffic originates from our undergraduate student population. Peak =
workload during 2015 fall term was about 27k concurrently active =
devices, 4.6Gbps, 415kpps.
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> The ASR1000 would have been our other choice but the ASR's higher =
price pushed us toward A10.
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> Eriks
> ---
> Eriks Rugelis
> Sr. Consultant
> Netidea Inc.
> T: +1.416.876.0740
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>> On Dec 17, 2015, at 12:30, Ahmed Munaf <ahmed.dalaali@hrins.net> =
wrote:
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>>> On Dec 16, 2015, at 7:52 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> =
wrote:
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>>>> On 16/Dec/15 18:36, Ahmed Munaf wrote:
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>>>> In addition to the limited concurrent sessions for ASR1000, we are
>>>> facing some issue with many users how are playing online games! Nat
>>>> problems!
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>>> This could be a function of the size of your ESP.
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>>> The 5Gbps ESP can handle 256,000 NAT sessions, while the 200Gbps ESP
>>> will do 4,000,000 NAT sessions with a per-second setup rate of =
300,000
>>> sessions.
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>>> Of course, it makes little sense to upgrade if you run out of =
sessions
>>> before you hit the NAT throughput ceiling, so other vendors may be =
more
>>> commercially palatable.
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>>> Mark.
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>> Thats right but as you mentioned that its commercially palatable, =
however I don=E2=80=99t know if the other vendors are the same =
performance as ASR1000! this was my question if someone recommend =
another vendor.=20
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