Have you seen Cisco's performance spec sheet? Once of their better references for rough platform performance estimation.
http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf A RSP8 is a touch faster than a 720x/NPE400, but also the 7500-series distributed switching capability will offload the CPU when it doesn't have to deal with forwarding, leaving more cycles for pure software processes. -Dave _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
