[c-nsp] 7201 encryption throughput without any acceleration cards?

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, P C wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea what type of AES-128 encryption throughput
> could be expected on a Cisco 7201 without any additional accelerator
> cards installed?

A NPE-300 does approximately 6 megabit/s of imix, so I'd imagine a G2 
might do around 6x that, so around 30-40 megabit/s. This is pure 
extrapolation that encryption performance is approximately linear to pps 
performance difference between NPE-300 and G2 without encryption.

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