Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on some testing for a potential project that would involve a number of remote sites that require encrypted traffic to flow between them, as well as them performing BGP with a number of upstreams, and IX's.

The current router of choice (before the IPSec VPN's were thrown in) was the 7[23]00 with the NPE-G2.

The current design encompases running GRE tunnels (for the IGP to work as we wish). With no hardware acceleration, the routers processors max out about 25Mbps. With the SA-VAM2+ this increases to about 60Mbps, however is no where near the level I would have expected unfortunately.

Can anyone with any experience of using the SA-VAM2+/ anyone who has any extra thoughts on how to improve the throughput?

These routers aren't running any ACL's at present, have a couple of OSPF processes, and a couple of BGP sessions with only a few routes.

Any thoughts much appreciated,

Thanks,