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Re: [FW1] RE: Nokia/Check Point/SolutionPaq



On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:56:13AM -0700, Mark Decker wrote:
: Our internal testing results show the Compaq box does better than you
: describe vs. the IP330.  

That's cool, but I'd prefer to go with the numbers that came from my 
conversation with Compaq...

: We found that a base DL320 SolutionPaq has much
: faster throughput than the base IP330 in identical environments.  (BTW,
: you can put up to 2G of RAM in the SolutionPaq, and up to 6 NICs, while
: the IP330 is a fixed config with 256MB RAM and 3 NICs.)  

The Compaq engineer I spoke with told me that they tested with a gig of
ram in the DL320...  Also, the IP330's max port density is 5 10/100 ports.

: With FLOWS
: enabled on the Nokia, the Nokia throughput goes up significantly, but I
: understand there are still a few drawbacks to using FLOWS (admittedly,
: not my area of expertise, so forgive me if I've overstated the FLOWS
: issue; perhaps someone else can elaborate).  

Flows helps most on long-lasting connections with small packets.  The
only drawbacks I know of to Flows is that VPN traffic is not flowed, and
if you use Floodgate, Flows gets disabled.  The customers I see don't
have much, if any demand for Floodgate though...

: Personally, I'd like to see
: an independent magazine do an apples-to-apples benchmark test of
: similarly configured DL320 vs IP330, and then see how they fare.  

Absolutely!  I'd love to see an IP330 with IPSO 3.4 and FW1 4.1SP4 vs.
the DL320 with 256 MB of RAM and 4.1SP4...

: As far as price goes, the base IP330 lists at $4,950, while the base
: DL320 SolutionPaq lists at $3,249.  I'm no math whiz, but I believe
: that's more than 1/3 less expensive, rather than only 15%.  If buying
: 100 units for all your branch offices, that's a recession-friendly
: savings of over $170,000. :-)

Ahh, but I was talking about the config that the Compaq guy told me about,
with a gig of RAM...  That drives the price up a bit... :-)

-- 
Jason Costomiris <><           |  Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org  |  http://www.jasons.org/ 
          Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
                    My account, My opinions.


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