[c-nsp] Real performance of 3DES traffic through 2821?

[Robert Boyle]

At 12:23 PM 11/14/2007, Peter Olsson wrote:
>Equipment recommendations for this scenario would be very much
>appreciated:
>Two central offices with 1 Gbps Ethernet between them.
>Each central office has 100 Mbps Ethernet lines to 10-15 branch offices.
>All traffic is encrypted.
>We have been considering 2821 or 2851 at the branch offices,
>and 7600 at the central offices.

If all you want is to encrypt the traffic, take a look at the ASA5505 
and/or ASA5510. Their performance specs are pretty close to reality. 
The 5505 is cheaper than a 28XX and will work at line rate (100Mbit anyway.)

-Robert



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