CSS 11506 and ACE 4710 throughput

[tobin_jim]

I'm looking at replacing a CSS 11506 in a data centre with two Cisco ACE 4710 appliances. One thing that concerns me is the drop in throughput. The 11560 has a maximum throughput of 40Gbps while the ACE we are looking at is only 1Gbps. It seems that the 11506 is able to scale much better. I'd welcome any thoughts on this.

Also, is it possible to run the two 4710s in an active/standby configuration?

[mwinnett]

I don't have performance figures for the CSS, but I would be very surprised if

old equipment can so vastly outshine the latest stuff. The 4710 can go to 2G with

an appropriate license and can be run in active/standby fault tolerant setup. I would

talk to you local Cisco account manager or SE about the comparative performance

stats.

Matthew

[Shobith K]

Not sure about CSS throughput, but ACE can scale upto 16Gbps of througput for an ACE20 module.  Default license comes in 4Gbps, can be increased to 8 or 16.