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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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