We've got a 7204VXR router with an NPE-400 and a 1-port gigabit ethernet card, connecting to our upstream provider. We are looking into moving to a new provider on a 10 gigabit ethernet link, keeping the original connection as a backup.
Can the 7204VXR support 10 gig ethernet? Is there enough capacity to support 10 gig ethernet and the original 1 gig ethernet?
Do a search for routerperformance.pdf.
According to that a 7200/NPE-400 can shift about 420 Kpps and about 521 Mbps.
I think the answer is I don't thnk so.
This one ? Last updated 2009, but the 7200 won't have changed since then.
420 kpps and 215 Mbps, but that's 64-byte packets. For an idealised bimodal traffic distribution where half the packets are 64-bytes and the other half are 1500 bytes you get 2.6 Gbps.I don't think you'll find a 10G interface for a 7200 anyway, even if you upgrade to an NPE-G2.
Sam
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