[c-nsp] Cisco 12000 / SIP 601 / Throughput

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Ahmed Hilmy wrote:

> My questions are:
> - shall my SIP work half or full rate ?
> - full duplex, 10 GE IN / 10 GE OUT ?
> -SIP 601 will do local forwarding for the traffic ? ( Download coming from
> UP Link to Backbone )  or should go to RSP ( control plane ) and if this
> true so the SIP will carry only 10 GE ( IN + OUT ) ... ?
>
> Would you please share your experience about this isue.

A SIP-601 will do ~11-12 gigabit/s of througput, full duplex. By inserting 
two 10G SPAs you've overbooked the SIP by almost a factor of 2. There is 
no local switching I'm aware of.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se