[48023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The market must be coming back
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Tue May 21 00:50:33 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:49:55 -0400
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@asr.org>
To: Gary <garyb@foundrynet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, asr@asr.org
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On 2002-05-21-00:14:30, Gary <garyb@foundrynet.com> wrote:
> [...] Sort of like buying a GbE interface for a 7200 (It only get's
> 10% throughput... Why waste the money, just buy FE!).
How did the Foundry test lab arrive at those figures, and what
substances were consumed at the time?
I'd say 300+ mbit/sec on a PA-GE is a more accurate real-world limit,
assuming you've got plenty of spare CPU cycles to burn, and no ACL's.
Besides, that's really an apples to oranges comparison. I don't think
anyone, including Cisco, has ever made the claim that it can do line
rate GbE; that's not to say it isn't useful for certain topologies
requiring slightly-faster-than-fast-e router<->switch uplinks, etc.
-a
