[c-nsp] 7206vxr npe300 throughput

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Richey wrote:

> I've got a 7206VXR with an NPE 300.  It does not run BGP.  The majority of
> the traffic on this router will be is streaming media.  The only ACLs on
> this router are there to protect the router it's self.   We are talking
> about switching the full DS3 that is in this router out for a 100Mb FE feed.
> Should I worry about this router being able to handle 80 to 100mb of
> traffic?

NPE300 will do bidir approximately OC3 with i-mix traffic in my 
experience. So unless the traffic consists of really small packets only, 
you should be fine with quite a lot of headroom to do DS3.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se