(apologies for cross-posting) 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. Regards, David Newman Network Test