Gigabit Ethernet Cards

Performance Summary

The AD194A card provides excellent performance when used in accordance with the

recommendations in this paper. Figure 3 summarizes the performance results possible when

many different types of traffic combinations are used with the recommended models.

Figure 3

AD194A Performance Summary in rx6600

The graph shows the average sustained unidirectional throughput relative to link rate

measured on:

• 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports,

• 2 Fibre Channel ports, or

• A mix of 1 Fiber channel port and 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, or

• A mix of 2 Fiber channel ports and 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The AD194A has very good performance. Averages range from 57.9--99.7% of link rate on

the rx6600 system with different combinations of traffic types. The summary includes results

for all 4 ports running sustained simultaneous traffic!

Many of the different types of traffic combinations achieve link rate and will be discussed in