Re: 10Gbps IPS - what you need to know

[John Jasen <jjasen () realityfailure org>]

Ravi Chunduru wrote:
> This is impressive.  I wonder what is in there under the hood in McAfee box.
>
> Copied from the test report:  "The device ably supported over 11Gbps
> of traffic with the larger HTTP response sizes (21KB) and lower
> connections per second (5,000 CPS per Gigabit of traffic) found on
> typical corporate networks".
>
> It appears to be some calcualtion mistake!  It comes to around
> 820-830Mbps (21Kbytes * 5000 ), not 11Gbps throughput!

Per gigabit of traffic.

At 1Gbps, they would see 820Mbs or so outbound from the servers.

At 10Gbps, they would see 8200 Mbs outboud.

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