On 2/10/14, 7:17 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: > We are looking to double the bandwidth on one of our circuits from > 300Mbps to 600Mbps. We currently use a Cisco 7206VXR with an NPE-G1 > card. These seem like very popular routers so I'm hoping a few people on > this list have them deployed. If you or a customer have these deployed, > how much bandwidth have you seen them handle? This will be handling dorm > traffic at a college so it's mostly download. The 7206 handles our 300 > Mbps circuit just fine, but we are moving it to our 600Mbps circuit. At > peak we've seen the following numbers for that circuit: > > > 30 second input rate 559982000 bits/sec, 55809 packets/sec > 30 second output rate 55429000 bits/sec, 32598 packets/sec > 267756984712 packets input, 333325152556755 bytes, 0 no buffer > > This is the interface that connects to our provider. As you can see its > almost all download traffic. Our ASR1002 handles it without a sweat but > I'm a little skeptical of whether the 7206 will hold up.
I wouldn't expect a g1 to do much more than half a gig... https://supportforums.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/561469-9512/routerperformance.pdf > Answers on and off list are appreciated. > > Thanks, > >
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