Re: 10Gbps IPS - what you need to know

[Ravi Chunduru <ravi.is.chunduru () gmail com>]

my bad. thanks for correction.

Ravi

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, John Jasen <jjasen () realityfailure org> wrote:
> 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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