[c-nsp] 7500 RSP8 Throughput Ability

[David Coulson]

Rodney Dunn wrote:
> Depending on the traffic distribution you could probably put a couple
> cards in the box and easily get 200 MBps through it. Doing it on
> one card might be pushing it. This is with no feaures and dCEF.
> Or if you are not going to run features that need dCEF then you might
> could run it with dCEF off and let the RSP handle it and get those rates.
> I don't know the pps numbers of the RSP8 directly as we usually don't
> recommend people doing it because of the dcef feature requirements ie: QOS,
> etc.. but you could test it in the lab.

While we're on this subject - Is there any real-world differences
between a GEIP and a GEIP+ with an RSP4 doing dCEF? I would like the
flexability on the 7500 platform to do more than 100Mbit, but is there
any point in a GEIP+ if I can't do more than 200Mbit anyway?

David

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