The contents of this legacy page are no longer maintained nor supported, and are made available only for historical purposes.
Bibliography Details
D. Newman, "Internet Core Router Test" Mar 2001.
|
Internet Core Router Test
|
|
Authors:
|
D. Newman
|
|
Published:
|
Light Reading, 2001
|
|
URL:
|
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=4009&site=testing
|
|
Entry Date:
|
2003-01-28
|
|
Datasets:
|
- Live Internet core links:
- MAE-East
- MAE-West
- 35 major ISPs
- Merit Network
- Generated (?) traffic based on the packet size distribution
sampled from Merit over a two-week period
- Generated traffic consisting entirely of 40-byte packets
|
|
Results:
|
Compares the following routers:
- Charlotte Aranea-1 / AraneOS 2.0
- Cisco 12416 Internet Router / 12.0 (14) SX
- Foundry NetIron Internet Router / 7.1.00
- Juniper M160 Internet Backbone Router / 4.2R2.4 / 4.2E
|
Test
|
Winner
|
|
IP forwarding and latency (OC48)
|
Cisco
|
|
MPLS forwarding and latency (OC48)
|
Cisco, Juniper
|
|
IP forwarding and latency (OC192)
|
Cisco, Juniper
|
|
MPLS forwarding and latency (OC192)
|
Cisco, Juniper
|
|
Longest match lookup times (OC48)
|
Cisco
|
|
Longest match lookup times (OC192)
|
Cisco
|
|
BGP table capacity
|
Juniper
|
|
MPLS LSP capacity
|
Juniper
|
|
Route flapping (OC48)
|
Cisco, Juniper
|
|
Route flapping (OC192)
|
Juniper
|
|
Convergence (OC48)
|
Juniper
|
|
Convergence (OC192)
|
Juniper
|
|
Packet filtering (OC48)
|
Juniper
|
|
Packet filtering (OC192)
|
Juniper
|
|
IP class of service handling (OC48)
|
Cisco, Juniper
|
|
IP class of service handling (OC192)
|
Cisco
|
|
