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.