Help in selecting router please

Wed Sep 20 16:15:36 PDT 2006

Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> Tim Pozar wrote:
>> Michael T. Halligan wrote:
>>  
>>> A full BGP route table on the 2821 pushing 3gb/s? Not according to 
>>> cisco.
>>>     
>>
>> To continue... I wouldn't push it much beyond that.  If folks get
>> serious, then I would point them at something like a Juniper M7i.
>>
>> Tim
>>   
>
> What's strange is cisco's 2821 limited performance documentation only 
> bothers showing bandwidth in the low
> 10s of megabits/second.
I found this router performance chart after quite a bit of digging: 
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf

Cisco rates the 2821 at 170kPPS or 87.3mbps.. It could be that Cisco is 
purposefully underspecifying it's hardware to promote buying larger gear?
 Though, honestly I have trouble believing that a $3k router can push 
3gb/s of bgp routed traffic.