[35524] in North American Network Operators' Group
core router bakeoff at Light Reading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Newman)
Mon Mar 12 08:07:27 2001
From: "David Newman" <dnewman@networktest.com>
To: <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>, <foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net>,
<juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:03:16 -0500
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(apologies for cross-posting)
Readers of this list may be interested
in the results of a four-vendor
core router bakeoff just posted here:
http://lightreading.com/testing
Each vendor supplied:
up to 12 x OC-192c
up to 48 x OC-48c
The entries were:
Charlotte's Networks Aranea-1
Cisco 12416
Foundry NetIron
Juniper M160
Tests included:
IP baselines
MPLS baselines
BGP table capacity
MPLS LSP capacity
longest-match lookup
route flapping
route convergence
filtering
class of service
There's also a discussion of packet reordering.
Regards,
David Newman
Network Test
