[c-nsp] Will the Cisco 2911 push GigE with NAT enabled ?

[Aled Morris]

On 30 April 2012 16:40, Dave <dcostell-cisconsp at torzo.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for the responses. I actually found the PDF shortly after
> sending the e-mail. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. (Also a part of me
> was hoping the PDF was wrong). So for an office router that will do GigE +
> VPN + NAT anyone have any recommendations ? Is it the ASR1k or bust now
> days ?
>


You're only going to get near gigabit performance with hardware forwarding,
so ASR is your best bet.  Switch platforms with Layer 3 (like the Catalyst
3560-X) aren't going to support the features you need in their forwarding
ASICs so you'll get performance worse than the ISR2 you've already tried.

Aled