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Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:38:55 +0200

On Monday, February 10, 2014 07:58:16 PM Nick Hilliard 
wrote:

in fact, the npe-g1 uses a BCM1250 which is a dual CPU
unit but vanilla IOS is not able to use the second CPU
for packet forwarding.  Unsubstantiated rumour claimed
that modular IOS (QNX kernel) could push about 1.6x the
throughput of vanilla IOS, as it was smp capable.  Pity
it was never released.

Haha, you remind me of PXF (although that was the NSE-100 
and NSE-150).

Mark.

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