Exactly what Faisal Said. The BGP process appears to be single threaded at
the moment. So taking on full BGP tables can be a bit slow compared to a
decent X86 box. But in terms of raw forwarding power they are pretty
monstrous.
We replaced a few Maxxwave 6 port Atom's with the CCR. ~400Mb/s and ~40K
pps aggregate across all ports. CPU load went from ~25% to ~0-2%. These are
in a configuration where they have little or no firewall/nat/queue rules.
And in most cases are running MPLS.
We've not had any issues with stability so far either (Knock on wood).
Nick Olsen
Network Operations
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