[c-nsp] RE: Unknown reason for High CPU 3620

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Alex Foster wrote:

> The load on this connection will soon increase to a constant 40 - 60
> Mbps (again bridging - cant route unfortunately).  Obviously the 3620
> wont handle this - I have a 7206 (NPE-400) available, would this box
> suffice for the traffic load I am estimating - I can upgrade the 7206 to
> a G1 processor if needs be.

You mentioned SIP traffic. With 40-60 megabit/s of SIP traffic (which will
be small packet size probably) 60 megabit/s will be very high pps and if I
were you I'd try to find an ASIC based forwarding platform that has a
better pps value than the 7200.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se