Throughput And Latency Performance Data - HP 5400zl Series Technical Overview

Throughput and latency performance data

The following three tables describe the performance capabilities of the 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, and 100
Mbps line interface module ports of the HP ProCurve Switch 5400zl, 3500yl, and 6200yl series.
Over a range of packet sizes from 64 bytes to 1518 bytes, the performance levels achieved are
described in terms of the following metrics:
• Throughput level percentage achieved when performing Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing;
100% in all cases
• Throughput in the form of the number of packets per second when performing Layer 2 switching
and Layer 3 routing
• Average per-packet latency in microseconds when performing Layer 2 switching and Layer 3
routing. These values shown are listed for both First In First Out (FIFO) and Last In First Out
(LIFO) processing. The LIFO values represent the packet transmit time, whereas the FIFO values
include the switch decision time and the packet transmit time.
• Percentage of packets dropped in a full mesh configuration; 0% in all cases
The following measurements were performed by HP ProCurve using test equipment manufactured by
Ixia Communications (www.ixiacom.com). In these tests, the maximum number of supported ports on
the HP ProCurve Switch 5412zl was used. Proportional performance results at 100% of throughput are
achieved on the HP ProCurve Switch 5406zl, 3500yl-24G-PWR, 3500yl-48G-PWR, and 6200yl-24G-
mGBIC for the maximum number of ports supported by each of those models. The 100 Mbps table is
not applicable to the HP ProCurve Switch 6200yl-24G-mGBIC, since only 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit
ports are supported.
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