Performance and Recommended Use of AD193A / AD194A Combination 4-Gbps Fibre Channel / Gigabit Ethernet Cards

Comparison of AD194A to AB465A for 1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance
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Comparison of AD194A to AB465A for 1 FC Port and
1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance
Figure 7 shows the performance results when a mix of unidirectional traffic is run
simultaneously through one Fibre Channel port and one 1000Base-T port on the AD194A
and AB465A card.
The following highlights show the exceptional performance the AD194A achieved during
combination traffic testing:
Figure 7
AD194A and AB465A Throughput Comparison with 1
Fibre Channel and 1 GbE
• The above chart shows that 392 MB/s disk throughput for the AD194A card is double
the 189 MB/s disk throughput for the AB465A card. This increase is provided by the
technology change to 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports on the AD194A compared to 2-Gbps
Fibre Channel ports on the AB465A card.
• Ethernet performance remains at link rate for both cards.
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DiskThroughputin
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EthernetThroughputin
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AD194AFCDisk
393392393393
AB465AFCDisk
189189186185
AD194AGige
947948947948
AB465AGige
946947946947
DiskRd  Disk Rd DiskWrt DiskWrt
GigeXmit GigeRecv GigeXmit GigeRecv
AD194A AD194A AD194A AD194A
A
B465
A
AB465A AB465A AB465A