[nsp] AToM performance

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> Does anyone have any experience or pointers as to the kind of performance
> one could expect from a GSR acting as PE for AToM transport of Ethernet or
> SONET? Someone I know is saying that they weren't able to get reasonable
> performance (aka an OC3's worth) out of it, and while I normally prefer
> using Juniper for this sort of thing, I refuse to believe that even Cisco
> can be that bad...

One datapoint: We did AToM line rate with small packets on a GSR with 3
port GigE customer-facing, STM-16 DPT towards the rest of the network,
one GigE port in use. We had no problems with performance here.

(For those of you who might be curious: Yes, this was a DoS attack.)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no