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Re: Software router state of the art


From: Adam Armstrong <lists () memetic org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:00:13 +0100

Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008, Charles Wyble wrote:


Sure its not a CRS-1, but reliably doing a mil pps with a smattering of
low-touch features would be rather useful, no?

(Then, add say, l2tp/ppp into that mix, just as a crazy on-topic example..)
Sounds like a Juniper J-series. Have a look at the forwarding figures for the J6350. It does something around 2mpps and it's just an intel CPU with some PCI/PCI-X interfaces. The device just below it, the J4350 uses a 2.53Ghz celeron. I'm not sure what the J6350 uses.

adam.


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