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Re: Residential CPE suggestions
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 12:18:09 -0500 (CDT)
It uses a Cavium Octeon processor which does have dedicated HW packet proce= ssing. A moderate number of prefixes won't slow it down doing vanilla for= warding, not sure about 2 million though... I believe they have recently o= ptimized some of the FW stuff to take advantage of the HW as well. =20 Layering services like FW, NAT, and tunneling definitely drops the packet r= ate significantly, but it is still capable of 100+Mbps at IMIX packet sizes= .=20 I think there are a couple of in depth tests out there. In my experience the ERL works really well for a $99 device.=20
I sent them an inquiry and they sent a friendly but fact-free response so it is probably safe to assume that it is relatively good at basic packet forwarding but the services will kill it. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Current thread:
- Residential CPE suggestions Deepak Jain (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Gary Buhrmaster (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Bryan Seitz (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Cryptographrix (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jared Mauch (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Joe Greco (May 06)
- RE: Residential CPE suggestions bedard.phil (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Joe Greco (May 07)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Cryptographrix (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Steven Miano (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jared Mauch (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Gary Buhrmaster (May 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Scott Weeks (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jimmy Hess (May 06)
- RE: Residential CPE suggestions Nolan Rollo (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jared Mauch (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Warren Bailey (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Randy Carpenter (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Aled Morris (May 09)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Aled Morris (May 09)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jimmy Hess (May 06)