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"AMD and Intel CPUs are pointless in this space" You could not be more wrong. Citing the Ubiquiti ER-lite 'Tolly' results just shows that you don't understand

by gonzo 12y ago

"AMD and Intel CPUs are pointless in this space" You could not be more wrong. Citing the Ubiquiti ER-lite 'Tolly' results just shows that you don't understand what they did to get their cited "performance". Disclosure: We sell a ton of Ubiquiti. Hell, I nearly bought the company in its formative days, when Robert's original two partners quit to get "real jobs".

devicenull 12y ago
> Citing the Ubiquiti ER-lite 'Tolly' results just shows that you don't understand what they did to get their cited "performance". What did they do?
windexh8er 12y ago
Please share. I work for a company that uses Cavium in almost all of our products. To accomplish the performance per watt on Intel or AMD would be 1) ridiculously expensive 2) still not scale to what we can do with Cavium. We do ~20Gb of DPI in Cavium today in a construct of roughly 24 processors on a dataplane. Intel can't touch that - and I've seen a lot of attempts. I don't agree with Miercom / Tolly or, hell, even NSS - they're all paid for results. But the Cavium truly can do the offload and it does in a $99 device, some of what people have said around QoS and other aspects is true, it's writing your software to take advantage of that. Not to be a detractor but your sentiment seems bitter - but I'd be interested in real perspective if you have one.
- windexh8er 12y ago
  And, just to clarify. I've done extensive testing for large organizations using most test tools under the sun testing a lot of 10-100Gb platforms. Ixia BreakingPoint, Spirent, etc. I can also say that I've tested the EdgeRouter Lite and know that, in terms of pure packet processing, it will beat an APU1C in packets per dollar every day of the week. I also understand your perspective now - coming from Netgate. I'm sure I'd be kicking myself as well, but - then again Ubiquiti probably wouldn't be what they are today.

by gonzo 12y ago

devicenull 12y ago

> Citing the Ubiquiti ER-lite 'Tolly' results just shows that you don't understand what they did to get their cited "performance". What did they do?

windexh8er 12y ago

Please share. I work for a company that uses Cavium in almost all of our products. To accomplish the performance per watt on Intel or AMD would be 1) ridiculously expensive 2) still not scale to what we can do with Cavium. We do ~20Gb of DPI in Cavium today in a construct of roughly 24 processors on a dataplane. Intel can't touch that - and I've seen a lot of attempts. I don't agree with Miercom / Tolly or, hell, even NSS - they're all paid for results. But the Cavium truly can do the offload and it does in a $99 device, some of what people have said around QoS and other aspects is true, it's writing your software to take advantage of that. Not to be a detractor but your sentiment seems bitter - but I'd be interested in real perspective if you have one.

windexh8er 12y ago
And, just to clarify. I've done extensive testing for large organizations using most test tools under the sun testing a lot of 10-100Gb platforms. Ixia BreakingPoint, Spirent, etc. I can also say that I've tested the EdgeRouter Lite and know that, in terms of pure packet processing, it will beat an APU1C in packets per dollar every day of the week. I also understand your perspective now - coming from Netgate. I'm sure I'd be kicking myself as well, but - then again Ubiquiti probably wouldn't be what they are today.