[35724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cisco Misrepresents Results of First Independent Test of Core Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Beverly)
Thu Mar 15 09:22:20 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:57:34 -0500
From: Robert Beverly <rbeverly@rbeverly.net>
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Appologies if some of you have already seen this.
Cisco reached some interesting conclusions from this test
in their press release:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010314/0647.html
stating that their 12416 performed the best. Lightreading
issued a subsequent warning about the inaccuracies of Cisco's
statement:
http://www.bigcharts.com/news/articles.asp?newsid=776376576&symb=JNPR&sid=150116
rob
> 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.
