Appologies if some of you have already seen this. Cisco reached some interesting conclusions from this test in their press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010314/0647.html stating that their 12416 performed the best. Lightreading issued a subsequent warning about the inaccuracies of Cisco's statement: http://www.bigcharts.com/news/articles.asp?newsid=776376576&symb=JNPR&sid=150116 rob
Readers of this list may be interested in the results of a four-vendor core router bakeoff just posted here:
http://lightreading.com/testing
Each vendor supplied:
up to 12 x OC-192c up to 48 x OC-48c
The entries were:
Charlotte's Networks Aranea-1 Cisco 12416 Foundry NetIron Juniper M160
Tests included:
IP baselines MPLS baselines BGP table capacity MPLS LSP capacity longest-match lookup route flapping route convergence filtering class of service
There's also a discussion of packet reordering.