On 2/10/14, 7:57 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: > Thanks for the link. When I looked at it, the PPS and bandwidth didn't > really match what I see on my network so I'm curious to see what people > are actually seeing. It looks like their test is done using very small > packets (64K). Our traffic is mostly web with a lot of Video (netflix , > Hulu, youtube, Flash etc) so we're dealing with a lot less packets that > are much larger. Based on the numbers I posted, we' would be at the BW > limit without even coming close the PPS limit (if we were running the > traffic through the 7206).
so those pps numbers are worst case (small packet) but the acl count /distribution and so on are going to impact what you actually get in the downward direction. > > On 2/10/2014 10:41 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: >> On 2/10/14, 7:17 AM, 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. >> I wouldn't expect a g1 to do much more than half a gig... >> >> https://supportforums.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/561469-9512/routerperformance.pdf >> >> >>> Answers on and off list are appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >> >
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