[nsp] NPE-G1

[Leah Lynch]

I tested the NPE-G1 on a 7304 router (in a lab). While using a traffic generator to generate as much traffic as possible I sent the 7304 500,000 routes and it did not even hiccup. During the transfer of routes there was a brief period where the interface connected to the test system was completely saturated, but that was because the test system sent the 7304 500k routes in a few seconds. I know that's not real world, but it is pretty darn impressive.

Leah
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From: "Richard J. Sears" <rsears at adnc.com>
Date: 2004/01/29 Thu PM 05:29:57 PST
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [nsp] NPE-G1

I am looking at upgrading my current 7507 routers. Each of my routers
has dual RSP4s and I was thinking of upgrading them to RSP8s when I
started reading about the new 7206VXRs with the NPE-G1 engine.

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with this router/engine
combination, how well they perform in comparison to the RSP8s and
actual total traffic capabilities when utilizing all three gig ports
with a mixture of OC3, Gig and DS3 connections as well.

These will be backbone routers connected to a total of 6 upstream
providers, so we will be carrying full BGP tables on each of them as
well.

Just looking for a real world (as opposed to marketing) performance
capabilities and any horror stories (if any).


Thanks

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