mVPN performance on Cat6K

[andrew.burns]

Does anyone know if there are any specific performance limitations given the following:

Catalyst 6500 with Supervisor 720

6708 linecard

Configured as a MPLS PE using SXI software

multicast VPN (standard service provider setup, with multicast enabled mpls core)

I understand that due to ingress replication, and subsequent recirculation, I won't get line rate performance with multicast over a mVPN. In fact, problems may start with a throughput as low as 3Gbps on a PE port)

Does anyone have any real-world experience on this topic that they could share?

[prasad.gsmc]

I have implementation done on campus MPLS Backbone. I do have 100+ Channels using mVPN with 6704 linecards.

though mVPN is actually and IP based swithching and not on label based, I have not experienced any bottle neck in throughput. My traffic is constant 500 Mbps from head end to campus and there is no signs of any issue. CPU of by core backbone is less than 8% :-).......

it equally matters your packet size too...

Please review the report below

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/prod_white_paper0900aecd800c958a.pdf

regards

Prasad