The Tolly Group verifies line-rate performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet on the Force10 E1200 Swith/RouterMilpitas 03 September 2002 Force10 Networks Inc.'s E1200, which was introduced as part of the Force10 E-Series, has been tested by the independent laboratory The Tolly Group in Manasquan, New Jersey. The tests confirmed that the E1200 delivers non-blocking, line-rate forwarding across all 28 ports of 10G Ethernet with extended access control lists (ACLs) applied when tested with large frame sizes greater than 512 bytes. Tests that hammered the E1200 with smaller, more processing-intensive frame sizes yielded zero-loss throughput ranging from 98% to 99%.
The Tolly Group test was performed on the E1200 in a fully loaded meshed configuration and also in a two port-pair configuration with extensive ACLs filtering applied. Both scenarios represent a more realistic test scenario than tests that simply forward traffic on a port-to-port basis across a switch interface card with no filters present. The E1200 was connected, in the full-mesh configuration, via 28 ports of 10-Gigabit Ethernet to an Ixia Communications IXIA 1600T traffic generator.
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