Competitive benchmark: 3Com Switch 7700R vs. Cisco Catalyst

Full test results are available here.

Engineers subjected each of the devices to Layer 2 throughput tests using packet sizes of 64, 512 and 1,518 bytes. Tests show that the 3Com Switch 7700R was the only device tested that achieved zero-loss wire-speed performance across all packet sizes tested when handling Layer 2 traffic in an adjacent port-pairing scheme.

Test highlights include:

• The 3Com switch delivered 100% of theoretical maximum zero-loss throughput at all frame sizes tested, while Cisco Catalyst switches delivered considerably less
• It generated 96 Gbps aggregate throughput consistently across 48 ports in full-duplex mode, versus Catalyst switches achieving 20 to 89 Gbps
• It provided up to four times the performance of the Catalyst 4500 and 6500

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