HP Networking presentation at Spirent booth, Interop 2012. By Sam Rastogi, Global Product Marketing Manager, HP Networking.
Test Objectives:
- Emulate a large-scale enterprise network based on extreme conditions and complexity
- Validate complex scenarios under change
- Simulate tens of thousands of users with a mix of routing, security, resiliency, and HA features
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2. Hewlett-Packard
Sam Rastogi
Global Product Marketing Manager
HP Networking
3. HP 6608 campus and HP MSR50 branch routers
HP 6608 • High performance (108 Mpps)
• 60 Gbps firewall, NAT
• 8M sessions, 340K sessions/sec
• 20,000 GRE tunnels
• Rich routing, MPLS, IPv6, QoS
• Carrier class high availability
HP MSR50
• High performance (1280 Kpps)
• 2 Gbps routing, firewall, NAT, QoS
• Feature rich, converged services
• Integrated branch in a box
4. Test Objectives
Emulate a large-scale enterprise
network based on extreme
conditions and complexity
Validate complex scenarios
under change
Simulate tens of thousands of users
with a mix of routing, security,
resiliency, and HA features
5. Test Results Analysis
Emulated real-world branch and campus
conditions
108+ Mpps forwarding performance in a
realistic load environment
Performance validated with 10,000 BGP
routes
Emulated tens of thousands of users
across millions of flows
Validated MPU resiliency and BFD FRR
until extreme conditions
6. 1 vs 5
HP Competition
HP 6608
1 router 55
Up to
routers
routers
108+ Mpps forwarding per chassis 23 Mpps forwarding per chassis
Up to 77% less rack space Up to 30 rack units
Up to 92% less power Up to 8,000 watts
7. Recommendations for Audience
Recommendations
• Define testing methodology based on real world conditions
• Accurately test and predict expected network performance
• Monitor and measure user experience
• Validate with comprehensive performance metrics
Visit HP booth to see live performance demonstrations of the
HP 6608 router with Spirent TestCenter
Read the joint HP-Spirent blog at http://www.hp.com/networking/Spirent
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