HP Networking Presentation at Spirent booth, Interop 2012

Sam RastogiHP Networking

Guest Speaker

Presentation

Hewlett-Packard

Sam Rastogi

Global Product Marketing Manager

HP Networking

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

•High performance (1280 Kpps)

•2 Gbps routing, firewall, NAT, QoS

•Feature rich, converged services

• Integrated branch in a box

HP MSR50

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

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

1 vs 5

CompetitionHP

Up to 77% less rack space

Up to 92% less power

1 router Up to 5 routers

108+ Mpps forwarding per chassis

Up to 30 rack units

Up to 8,000 watts

23 Mpps forwarding per chassis

HP 6608

5 routers

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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