On 02/10/2014 04:17 PM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: > We are looking to double the bandwidth on one of our circuits from 300Mbps to > 600Mbps. We currently use a Cisco 7206VXR with an NPE-G1 card. These seem > like very popular routers so I'm hoping a few > people on this list have them deployed. If you or a customer have these > deployed, how much bandwidth have you seen them handle? This will be handling > dorm traffic at a college so it's mostly download. > The 7206 handles our 300 Mbps circuit just fine, but we are moving it to our > 600Mbps circuit. At peak we've seen the following numbers for that circuit: > > > 30 second input rate 559982000 bits/sec, 55809 packets/sec > 30 second output rate 55429000 bits/sec, 32598 packets/sec > 267756984712 packets input, 333325152556755 bytes, 0 no buffer > > This is the interface that connects to our provider. As you can see its > almost all download traffic. Our ASR1002 handles it without a sweat but I'm a > little skeptical of whether the 7206 will hold up.
This depends on multiple variables. The 7200 is a single-CPU platform where CPU can go sky-high when using features like ACL's, QoS, IPv6 and you name it.. Also, changing from IOS 12.4 to 15 increased our CPU usage with another 10%+. Stick to the bare minimum of features you really need and you will be fine. Regards, Remco Bressers Signet B.V.
