[c-nsp] Cheap BGP router for ~20k prefixes

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Wed May 6 17:47:51 EDT 2015



On 6/May/15 23:17, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
> We've just started to evaluate the CSR1000V as a traffic-carrying
> router. So far we've pushed about 2.2Gb/s through it with no problems.
> When it comes to PPS - we're doing about 450k. The way the load shapes
> seems to indicate that the box should be able to handle about 5Gb/s
> using the APPX licence. Currently we run it on ESX and implemented all
> the Cisco suggested tweaking (in order to get better performance out
> of it), that roughly doubled the performance over the default
> settings. The devices are MPLS-enabled and integrated into our core
> and do only packet forwarding (between IP and MPLS).
> We didn't try VM-FEX just yet (that's suppose to significantly
> increase the PPS).  The physical infrastructure they run on - Cisco
> UCS, B200M3 blade.

Awesome feedback, Pshem. Thanks!

Mark.


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