[f-nsp] CER FIB capacity

Frank Louwers frank at openminds.be
Wed Oct 3 15:58:07 EDT 2012


Greg Hankins wrote:
> Hi Rob, the CER routers use SRAM for the IPv4/v6 FIB instead of CAM, so
> for the CES/CER/CER-RT platforms the scalability is dynamic for all IP
> routes in the FIB (vs the MLX CAM architecture where we have to choose
> fixed partition sizes which can support a maximum number).


So there is no TCAM in the CER (not even the -RT)? How much slower is an 
SRAM lookup than a TCAM lookup?

Frank
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