Bandwidth And Line Rate Considerations; Managing High-Density Ethernet; Table 14: Average Data Rate For Erx310 Router Or In Slots 2 Or 4 Of An Erx1440; Table 15: Average Data Rate When Installed In All Other Slots On An Erx1440 - Juniper JUNOSE 11.2.X PHYSICAL LAYER Configuration Manual

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Bandwidth and Line Rate Considerations

When the GE-HDE line module is installed in the ERX1440 router, it delivers full bandwidth
of 4 Gbps per line module (2 Gbps at the ingress and 2 Gbps at the egress) only when
installed in slot 2 or slot 4, and when the SRP-40G+ module is used in the router. When
the module is installed in any other ERX1440 slot, it delivers a maximum bandwidth of
2 Gbps per line module (1 Gbps maximum at the ingress and 1 Gbps maximum at the
egress). Therefore, of the maximum 96 possible ports for the module in an ERX1440
chassis (that is, eight ports in each of 12 slots), full bandwidth is delivered only on a
maximum of 16 ports (those in slots 2 and 4).
When the GE-HDE line module is installed in either the ERX1440 or the ERX310 router
and all ports are active, line rate performance is achieved only with packets that are
174 bytes or larger. The module might not achieve line rate with packets that are smaller
than 174 bytes.
Table 14 on page 173 lists the average data rate on the GE-HDE line module and GE-8 I/O
module combination when installed in an ERX310 router or in slots 2 or 4 of an ERX1440
router.
Table 14: Average Data Rate for ERX310 router or in Slots 2 or 4 of an
ERX1440 router
Average Data Rate per GE-8 I/O
Port Combination Module (> 174 Byte Packets)
Ports 1–8 250 Mbps per port
Any four ports 500 Mbps per port
Any two ports 1 Gbps per port
Table 15 on page 173 lists the average data rate on the GE-HDE line module and GE-8 I/O
module combination when installed in all other slots on the ERX1440.
Table 15: Average Data Rate When Installed in All Other Slots on an
ERX1440 router
Average Data Rate per GE-8 I/O
Port Combination Module (> 174 Byte Packets)
Ports 1–8 125 Mbps per port
Any four ports 250 Mbps per port
Any two ports 500 Mbps per port

Managing High-Density Ethernet

The overall data rate for the GE-HDE line module is 2 Gbps; therefore, the I/O module
becomes highly oversubscribed because of the wire rate of the line module. The data
Chapter 5: Configuring Ethernet Interfaces
Average Data Rate per
GE-HDE Line Module
250 Mbps per port
500 Mbps per port
1 Gbps per port
Average Data Rate per
GE-HDE Line Module
125 Mbps per port
250 Mbps per port
500 Mbps per port
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