(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