Re: Router for Metro Ethernet

["Tony Varriale" <tvarriale () comcast net>]

> ---- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious () gmail com>
> To: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale () comcast net>
> Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
>
>
> That's the spec sheet, and that's for straight forwarding.
> If you want to do much of anything else at all with the router,
> Cisco has another web page that says they only recommend 45Mbps on the
> 3845 and something like half that on the 3825.
> It's especially an issue if you need to do traffic-shaping, which you
> usually do for MetroE.

That's the marketing sheet so you continue to purchase up.

But, notice what I said in my original post about CPU.  There's only so much 
of it.  So, adjust appropriately for whatever feature you turn on.

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