Cisco 5940 vs 5921 bandwidth or performance comparison

[kepcoate]

Hi,

Our customer is looking into using 5921 running on an system with high end I7 processor with 16GB RAM and trying  to use it as replacement for EOL 5940 router. 5921 has a bandwidth limitation of 200mbps ( Cisco 5921 ESR Adv Ent SW - 200 Mbps) as per documentation. From software feature standpoint 5921 and 5940 appear to be pretty much similar ( Disclaimer: I am not a Network engineer). How can we get an idea on bandwidth of 5940 to compare it to 5921 max 200mbps allowed? Assuming i7 based system running 5921 also has four 1Gbe ports same as 5940.

Thanks

[ctbower98]

That hardware solution should be more that sufficient to handle all the routing that you will be doing. Running on CentOS7, that box probably won't break a sweat unless you start doing a lot of encryption traffic, then it might creep up a little bit but nothing an i7 can't handle.