[c-nsp] new Cisco routers 1800/2800/3800

Michael Loftis mloftis at wgops.com
Thu Sep 30 01:52:13 EDT 2004



--On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 21:51 -0500 "Church, Chuck" 
<cchurch at netcogov.com> wrote:

> It must be a hell of a CPU then.  That Miercom report listed 550Mb full
> duplex for the 3845, with NAT and I assume CBAC in use.   Granted it's
> huge packets, but still, that's almost 95,000 pps at almost full size.  I
> don't think the 3745 can touch that.  That's NPE-400 territory, isn't it?
> I imagine that NPE-G2 coming out soon ought to be a beast!

Might be CPU, might, more likely, be really beefy implementation of 
hardware.  Though I think Cisco is finally getting the point after getting 
just handled by various upstarts like Linux and Juniper based hardware.


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