[nsp] NPE-G1 and 50,000 l2tp sessions???

[Martin Robinson]

Hello ALL,

We are in a bit of a jam trying to help a customer who is trying to do broadband aggregation over DSL.  They are needing to do up to 50,000 PPP/L2TP sessions and are currently using a 7206VXR/NPE-G1 based on Cisco's claim that each unit has the ability to handle up to 16,000 sessions.  They are currently using two units and maxing out at 2,500 sessions per unit at 90%+ CPU Utilization.

Does anyone have experience of doing this successfully using NPE-G1's or any other platform?  Please let me know if you have any insights that could be helpful, or if we need to use addition equipment such as Juniper or Redback would also be fine.  

Thanks Martin.

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