[j-nsp] Juniper's Gigabit performance

[Rubens Kuhl Jr.]

> Now we are looking for alternatives so my question, what is Juniper's
> interpretation of Gigabit. Is this 1000Mbps divided, 500Mbps for RX and
> 500 for TX or can one really achieve (close to) 1Gb/s?

It can go a bit further than 1 Gbps... on tests we violated mininum
interframe gap specs and the router accepted all traffic without loss.

> Could you please post your Juniper-experience to the list?

A strong feeling that packets travel thru C75xx in slow motion...


Rubens