HP 9304M, 9308M 6.1 HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M, 6. Appendix A: Performance Figures, 6.1.1 IP Routing Throughput Test – Packets Within Modules

HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Reviewer’s Guide

6. Appendix A: Performance Figures

These numbers have been generated by Hewlett-Packard, using two Ixia 1600 testers from Ixia Communications. Ixia testers are used by a number of network testing houses and the press to determine performance numbers for networking equipment. In these tests, 64 ports were used for Gigabit testing, 188 ports for 100 Mb testing.. All ports were full duplex. Numbers presented here are condensed from Ixia reports in order to save space.

Testing done on the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M. Percentage of throughput would be the same for the 9304M, but at one-half the number of packets since the 9304M has on-half the number of ports of the 9308M.

See Section 3 for an analysis of these numbers.

6.1 HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M

6.1.1 IP Routing Throughput Test – Packets Within Modules

6.1.1.1 Gigabit-SX ports

Port pairs active, full duplex: 64 = 64 Gbps data out of the tester

Test length: 10 seconds

Packet size (bytes)		64	128	256	512	1024	1280	1518
Total Packets / sec		95,238,080	54,054,080	28,985,536	15,037,568	7,662,848	6,153,856	5,201536
Percentage		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
6.1.1.2	100BT
Port pairs active, full duplex: 188 = 18.8 Gbps data out of the tester
Test length: 10 seconds
Packet size (bytes)		64	128	256	512	1024	1280	1518
Total Packets / sec		27,976,280	15,878,480	8,514,520	4,417,436	2,250924	1,807,808	1,528,064
Percentage		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
6.1.2	IP Routing Throughput Test – All Packets Across the Backplane
6.1.2.1 Gigabit-SX ports
Port pairs active, full duplex: 64 = 64 Gbps data out of the tester
Test length: 10 seconds
Packet size (bytes)		64	128	256	512	1024	1280	1518
Total Packets / sec		86,956,544	54,054,080	28,985,536	15,037,568	7,662,848	6,153,856	5,201536
Percentage		91.3	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
6.1.2.2	100BT
Port pairs active, full duplex: 188 = 18.8 Gbps data out of the tester
Test length: 10 seconds
Packet size (bytes)		64	128	256	512	1024	1280	1518
Total Packets / sec		27,976,280	15,878,480	8,514,520	4,417,436	2,250924	1,807,808	1,528,064
Percentage		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

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