Throughput on Network hardware

[ajay kondapalli]

Hi ,

Can any one explain me what is exactly " Throughput " which is referred in Network devices hardware comparisons.  Is this something the rate which the devices send the data per second ?  For example,  if We see Firewall throughput on ASA5520  is 450Mbps  , what does it mean ?

How can we interpret and understand this !

Thanks,

Ajay

[Aditya Ganjoo]

Hi Ajay,

Yes you are right.

For Calculating Throughput on the ASA,  We have to add received or Transmit  traffic in bytes/sec on all physical interfaces.

You need to check the "show traffic" output

on the: Aggregated Traffic on Physical Interface

grab the receive pkts/sec plus the transmited pkts/sec of all the physical interfaces.

Now divide it by 1024 to get kilobytes and then divide it again by 1024 to get megabytes/sec.

Regards,

Aditya

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