* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason J. W. Williams) [Tue 09 Dec 2008, 08:17 CET]:
I have somewhat of a general performance question regarding the L3
performance of the FES-XE line. Foundry is claiming 80 MPPS, but I
assumed that was a marketing number that would degrade with smaller
packet sizes. My rep is telling me that that is the performance even
assuming 64-byte packets. Is that everyone's experience with Foundry
gear? Just having trouble believing it because at 64-byte packets that
would be CRS-1 performance.
Pretty much, yes. Of course with CRS-1 and IOS-XR you get an actual
chassis-based router with router features such as fully-featured MPLS
and enough memory to carry multiple full routing tables with room for
growth and 'continue' in route-maps* and linecards and upgradability and
a forklift to install it.
I'm glad that Foundry tends to publish Mpps numbers for 64 byte frames
and not do the "double all numbers and call it full-duplex" marketing
stunt that Cisco is so often guilty of.
-- Niels.
*) Actually currently broken in IOS-XR. :)
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