[c-nsp] Throughput - 7204VXR

[David J. Hughes]

On 22/10/2005, at 5:14 AM, Gert Doering wrote:

> I regularily see up to 300 Mbit/s on our 7301, with about 25% CPU load.
>
> This is sort of "best case" traffic - audio streaming with average
> packet size of about 1300 bytes, and very long-lasting flow, thus 
> little
> churn in the flow-cache.  But still quite nice.


We have seen our 7301's handle 800 Mbits/s at 60% CPU.  As with Gert's 
traffic that's pretty much "best case" traffic running at around 90 
kpps.  They break 500 Mbits/s every day without an issue.  Thats IPv4, 
OSPF, BGP (100k prefixes), 12.2S.  Damn nice box for a single RU.


David
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