[f-nsp] CPUs in Brocade XMR/MLX

[Greg Hankins]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:16:44PM +0100, Robert Hass wrote:
>What CPU are at MLX/MLX management modules (MR and new MR2) ? I would
>like to compare CPU speeds to CER which I currently using.

The MR2 has a couple of changes: ~2X faster CPU, 4GB RAM, and two CF slots.

MR: 916 MHz PowerPC 7447A
MR2: 1.67 GHz PowerPC 7448A

>BGP processing speed at FIB during full-bgp session flap isn't
>impressive (NI 5.1). Did new software (5.2) provides any improvement
>is this ?

Let me see if I can find some convergence numbers.

Greg
(works for Brocade)

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