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Router Bandwidth 8500

Iqbal Khan
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HI

In  published RFP , mentioned Router Should have ESP Bandwidth 100 Gbps.

In Respect  reply C8500-12X Router which have

IPv4 Forwarding Throughput  (1400 bytes)= Up to 118Gbps

Question is : ESP Bandwidth Similar to IPv4 Forwarding Throughput ? C8500-12X Router what is the Bandwidth.

Regards

Iqbal

Pls help with the proper document/Information. 

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Joseph W. Doherty
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Unaware of any one concise document but how it works is as follows:

The fabric/backframe/bus/"guts" of a network device might document its bandwidth capacity.  For non-blocking, in the Cisco world, you need 2x all your duplex ports.

For example, for a device supporting 2 full duplex gig ports, the internal core would need a 4 gig capacity.

Forwarding bandwidth is calculated by a frame's/packet's size by how many can be forwarded per second. As frame's/packet's can vary forwarding requires more frames/packets per second to provide the same bandwidth usage.

Often device's bandwidth forwarding capacity "shrinks" as the frame's/packet's size shrinks.

Notice in what you posted, 118 Gbps for 1400 bytes. Ask, what Gbps for 64 bytes (or for "Imix")?

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