[c-nsp] Cisco 720x w/NPE-400

[jim bartus]

At one point I had a bookmark on cisco's site that showed all the major
routing devices from the 18xx to the NPE-G2/Sup720 with their software and
hardware pps rating.  I can't find it now though, despite blowing 20 minutes
on the cisco.com maze.  I think it was a PDF, anyone got it handy?

-jim

On 8/30/06, Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:
>
> At 03:15 PM 8/29/2006, Brant I. Stevens wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have a client that is currently running the above hardware with a DS3,
> >(limited ACLs, no QoS, iMix-type traffic, 2 full views;), and is looking
> to
> >move to an OC3.
> >
> >My question is how much throughput, based on the above description, will
> >this NPE be able to handle?  Is it realistic to expect the router to
> handle
> >an OC3, or would an NPE-G1/2 be more appropriate?
>
> I think the answer is it depends...
>
> What is the pps count like? I've seen NPE-400's struggle under far
> less than a DS3 worth of DDOS UDP traffic. It's the pps count that's
> most important more so than the throughput. Although that's not
> normal traffic, it's something to consider if the pipe will be as big
> as an OC-3. On the opposite end of the scale, we push over 60Mbps of
> traffic through an NPE-400 with it averaging around 20% CPU load.
> Again, these are larger packets though so the CPU load isn't as high.
> This router also has a dozen or so BGP sessions and a full routing table.
>
>
> Vinny Abello
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