You aren't going to find any PC based system able to accomplish that. Its because of the Bus speed limits. Also don't plan on doing Bandwdith management on it with connections of dissimlar speed, if selecting X86 type systems because of the clock speed limit.
Using NAPI, Quad processor, and PCI-Express, systems can support a 10GB card, and be capable of reaching 10Gig throughput. But that is totally pushing the technology to its max. You may find some interesting reading exploring Vyatta's trials w/ 10GB. Note that once you are at teh GB range for a port, there becomes an advantage to have a processor dedicated for each bus (card slot). It can be misleading because its not jsut teh PCI-E bus speed but also of Ram and CPU. If cost is an issue, it may still be possible to achieve what you want understanding that everybody won't be using the full speed at the same time. For example, you could install qty4 10GB cards, with the understanding that you'd probably only get 2GB max out of each card if they were all active at once, but you could burst higher when others weren't in use. You could make that PC for $1000 + NIC card cost, in a 3U case. Beats spending $100K on a Cisco, unless you truely need 10GB speeds. You also may want to consider a split archetecture design. For example, to buy a lower cost 10 Gb multi-port Switch, and then branch off of it to two seperate routers, to split the router load, to two high end PC boxes.. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <wi...@oregonfast.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE > Question that comes to mind, > > What size processor or machine is needed to do 10GigE's? > > > > Mike Hammett wrote: >> Any recommendations for routers that have multiple 10 GigE interfaces? I >> believe the PowerRouter can only do 3 and I'm looking for at least 4, >> even up to 8 or 10. I didn't see anything from ImageStream that went >> that high. >> >> I don't need to do 100 Gigs of throughput, but if you need 1 GigE of >> commit, you really need a 10 GigE for bursting. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
