RSM performance in a 5500

[brad-denham]

Right now I have two 3640's (16 flash 48 DRAM) handling my inter-vlan (5 VLAN's) routing. I am looking to move this function to my 5500's using 5302's. I have two 5500's in my core and I would like to install a RSM in each one and configure HSRP between the two.

I have read some documentation that the 3640 can process 50 to 70 thousand packets per second, how does and RSM stack up to this?

[steve.barlow]

The Catalyst 5500 leverages a switching fabric of 3.6 Gbps made up of three input buses, each bus running at 1.2 Gbps. As per Cisco: "The route switch module adds multilayer switching to the awarding-winning one million packets per second Layer 2 performance of the Catalyst 5000 and the multimillion packet per second capabilities of the Catalyst 5500. As NetFlow Switching, multimedia, and security services are integrated into the Catalyst 5000 series with the route switch module, wire speed performance and the consistent latencies of switching are maintained." So the number will be less than one million, but still a lot more than the 3600.

Steve

[FRANK HOFMAN]

Hello,

For those of you looking for some figures concerning router performance you can have a look at the following :

3640 4,000(process) 50-70,000 (fast)

Catalyst-RSM 14,000 (process) 175,000 (fast)

I found a complete table in Cisco's Infoblast, but I don't find the link to it. Anyway :

Platform Process Switching Fast Switching

801-5 1000 - cannot do fast switching

806 7,000

14xx 600 4,000

160x(-R) 600 4,000

1710 1,300 14,000

1720 1,400 8,500

1721 1,700 12,000

1750(-xx) 1,400 8,500

1751(-xx) 1,500 15,000

1760(-xx) 1,700 16,000

2500 800 4,400

261X 1,500 15,000

262X 1,500 25,000

265X 2,000 37,000

261X(XM) 20,000

262X(XM) 30,000

265X(XM) 40,000

2691 70,000

3620 2,000 20-40,000

3640 4,000 50-70,000

3660 12,000 100-120,000

3631 50-70,000

3725 7-8,000 100-120,000

3745 15-20,000 225-250,000

MC3810 2,000 8,000

MC3810-V3 3,000 15,000

IAD2400 3,000 15,000

4000 1,800 14,000

4500 5,000 40,000

4700 7,000 50,000

7120 13,000 175,000 (CEF)

7140 20,000 300,000 (CEF)

7200-NPE100 7,000 100,000

7200-NPE150 10,000 150,000

7200-NPE175 9,000 175,000 (CEF)

7200-NPE200 13,000 200,000

7200-NPE225 13,000 225,000 (CEF)

7200-NPE300 20,000 300,000 (CEF)

7200-NPE400 20,000 400,000 (CEF)

7200-NSE-1 20,000 300,000 (Also has PXF)

7300-NSE-100 3,500,000 (Also has 2xPXF)

7400 350,000 (Also has PXF)

7000-RP 2,500 30,000

7500-RSP2 5,000 220,000 (CEF)

7500-RSP4 8,000 345,000 (CEF)

7500-RSP8 22,000 470,000 (CEF)

7500-RSP16 29,000 530,000 (CEF)

10720 50,000 2,000,000 (Also has 2xPXF)

12000 (Engine 0) 400,000

12000 (Engine 1) 700,000

12000 (Engine 2) Approx. 1,000,000 4,000,000

12000 (Engine 3) 4,000,000

12000 (Engine 4/4+) 25,000,000

Catalyst 4224 35,000

Catalyst 2948G-L3 10,000,000

Catalyst 4908G-L3 12,000,000

Catalyst 4232-L3 Module 6,000,000

Catalyst-RSM 14,000 175,000

Catalyst-RSFC 170,000

Catalyst-RSFC/NFFCII 2,000,000

Catalyst-MSFC 170,000 15,000,000

Catalyst-MSFC2 680,000 15 or 30,000,000 (depending on fabric)

NOTE: VIP2 Distributed Switching significantly increases the performance on RSP platforms.

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