[c-nsp] PA-POS-2OC3

Volodymyr Yakovenko vovik at dumpty.org
Wed Nov 24 13:41:47 EST 2004


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:27:54PM +0100, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>>  Can anyone comment PA-POS-2OC3 abilities to process fully-saturated (both
>>  directions) STM1 (one port usage) and 2xSTM1 (two ports usage)?
>> 
>>  PA-POS-2OC3 is going to be used on 7206VXR with NPE-G1.
>
>It will depend on your packet size. With minimum sized packets NPE-G1
>can (almost) cope with full duplex traffic for *one* STM-1, according
>to my Smartbits measurements.

Thank you.

>With more normal packet size distributions you should have no problem
>handling two STM-1s of traffic going in both directions.

Will it be there any shortage of PCI bus resources?

>Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no

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Regards,
Volodymyr.



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