On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Brent Jones <br...@servuhome.net> wrote: > > > Well, with the new Juniper entry level MX devices out now, the cost > difference between Vyatta and Juniper is probably insignificant now, > and with Juniper devices, you have much higher PPS rate. > > Granted, I have Vyatta devices now doing BGP, and they work fine, but > you can't argue that ASICs can forward much faster than a general > purpose CPU :) > > To each their own > > -- > Brent Jones > br...@servuhome.net > > I won't argue that an ASIC isn't faster, but it is hard to argue that Vyatta isn't capable of high-end performance.
http://download.intel.com/embedded/processor/solutionbrief/322973.pdf