[c-nsp] 28xx performance question

[Kristofer Sigurdsson]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 11:52 -0400, Dave Temkin wrote:
> That seems to be Cisco's story to not infringe on 7200/etc. purchases.  
> According to their PDF a 2851 is roughly equivalent to a NPE-225 in 
> processing power.  2851 is rated at 220,000 pps, while a 3660 is rated at 100-
> 120,000 pps - so there's no reason a 2851 can't handle a full DS-3.

Or a 2821, for that matter...rated similiarly to NPE150, but can take a 
lot more memory and a long way from EOS/EOL.

A 2821 should be sufficient for your DS3.

By the way, the document Dave was referring to can be found here:
<http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf>

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