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HP ProCurve Switch 4000M / 8000M / 2424M / 1600M Reviewer’s Guide
6. Appendix A: Performance Figures
These numbers have been generated by Hewlett-Packard, using the SmartBits tester and the SmartApplications (revision 1.70)
software suite, both from NetCom Systems. This combination is used by most network testing houses and the press to
determine basic performance numbers for networking equipment. The maximum number of test ports with SmartBits at
10Mbps or 100Mbps is 80. SmartApplications v1.70 does not support full duplex streams even when the switch is configured
for full duplex. Numbers presented here are taken directly from the SmartBits reports, except for a few calculated values
which are clearly marked.
See Section 3 for an analysis of these numbers.
6.1 HP ProCurve Switch 4000M / 8000M
6.1.1 Throughput test
6.1.1.1 100BT
Port pairs active: 40, (80 ports) = 4Gbps data out of the tester
Test length: 60 seconds
Packet size (bytes) 64 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Total Packets 4,672,880 3,105,600 1,686,360 881,040 450,840 362,320 306,035
Percentage 78.5 91.9 93.1 93.7 94.1 94.2 94.1
See section 3 for interpretation of the above results.
Port pairs active: 30, (60 ports) = 3Gbps data out of the tester
Test length: 60 seconds
Packet size (bytes) 64 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Total Packets 4,464,300 2,533,770 1,358,700 704,880 359,190 288,450 243,810
Percentage 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
6.1.1.2 10BT
Port pairs active: 40, (80 ports) = 400Mbps data out of the tester
Test length: 60 seconds
Packet size (bytes) 64 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Total Packets 595,240 337,840 181,160 94,000 47,880 38,480 32,520
Percentage 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
6.1.2 Latency Test - unicast traffic
6.1.2.1 100Mbps
Port pairs active: 1
Latency test length: 10 seconds
Port-Pair Latency in microsec (µs)
Packet size (bytes) 64 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Port 1 to 2 8.70 14.50 25.50 47.30 91.20 113.20 133.30 FIFO
3.58 4.26 5.02 6.34 9.28 10.80 11.86 LIFO
(Calculated)
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6.1.2.2 10Mbps
Port pairs active: 1
Latency test length: 10 seconds
Port-Pair Latency in microsec (µs)
Packet size (bytes) 64 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Port 1 to 2 65.20 117.20 220.10 426.50 839.10 1045.2 1237.1 FIFO
14.00 14.80 15.30 16.90 19.90 21.2 22.7 LIFO
(Calculated)
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See the Latency discussion in section 3 of this guide for the LIFO calculation.
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