Contract limitations regarding the Consumers and Providers limits

[doridor]

I want to better understand the contract limitations in ACI 6.0(x)

In the verified Scalabilty guide is saw this table

According to this table, if a contract is associated to more than one provider, the maximum number of consumers is 100, which according to the TCAM calculator listed in the table is equivalent to between 400 (2 providers) and 10000 (100 providers) entries in the TCAM (if we have one filter).

But, in the same table, the Scale guideline states that the actual limit, is 50000 entries, for example 100 providers and 250 consumers with one filter. 

I would like to get some clarification on this topic, Thanks in Advance

[julian.bendix · Accepted solution]

This just illustrates how TCAM utilization grows ... it is not a hard limit. The hard limit relies with each leaf's capacity.