North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Cisco Misrepresents Results of First Independent Test of Core Routers
Appologies if some of you have already seen this. Cisco reached some interesting conclusions from this test in their press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010314/0647.html stating that their 12416 performed the best. Lightreading issued a subsequent warning about the inaccuracies of Cisco's statement: http://www.bigcharts.com/news/articles.asp?newsid=776376576&symb=JNPR&sid=150116 rob > Readers of this list may be interested > in the results of a four-vendor > core router bakeoff just posted here: > > http://lightreading.com/testing > > Each vendor supplied: > > up to 12 x OC-192c > up to 48 x OC-48c > > The entries were: > > Charlotte's Networks Aranea-1 > Cisco 12416 > Foundry NetIron > Juniper M160 > > Tests included: > > IP baselines > MPLS baselines > BGP table capacity > MPLS LSP capacity > longest-match lookup > route flapping > route convergence > filtering > class of service > > There's also a discussion of packet reordering.
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