RE: perf #s for GRF vs 7500 Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP S witch?

[Paul Peterson <paulp () winterlan com>]

Has anyone compared the figures or have any feelings regarding the Bay
Networks BCN ??

We are considering one over a Cisco 7513/RSP4 or a GRF.

Bay claims to hold the entire Internet routing table in just 4-6MB RAM
per BGP peer (I assume this is after convergence). They say that the
method in which they do this is proprietary. I am just wondering if it
is possible.....

TIA
Paul...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig A. Huegen [SMTP:c-huegen () quadrunner com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 9:00 PM
> To:   joseph j. kim
> Cc:   Joe  Shaw; nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: perf #s for GRF vs 7500 Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's
> GRF IP Switch?
>
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, joseph j. kim wrote:
>
> ==>So, who's numbers should we believe or feel are more appropriate to
> real
> ==>world situations?
> ==>
> ==>> Comparing GateD to IOS becomes more of a religious preference
> than
> ==>> anything else.  I'm content knowing both, truth be told.
> ==>> 
> ==>> > maybe someone can post some performance numbers.
>
> Tolly's report didn't use CEF/FIB switching, and used classical
> (centralized) switching.  Ascend paid Tolly for the test anyway--the
> only
> *true* test would be one from Data Communications or similar.
>
> /cah