Abstract

Today’s demanding enterprise environments require the exchange of massive amounts of information within a network on a daily basis. Wireless access point aggregation, streaming video, voice over IP, and other applications put increasing bandwidth demands on the network. Even with these ever-increasing demands, it is expected that a networks’ latency remains low.

Extreme Networks, Inc. commissioned Tolly to evaluate the performance, specifically the Layer 2 and Layer 3 throughput and latency, of the stackable ExtremeSwitching X620-8t-2x 10GbE Edge Switch. Testing was conducted using ten 10Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The ExtremeSwitching X620-8t-2x handles 100% theoretical line rate L2 and L3 throughput at various frame/packet sizes with zero packet loss while maintaining very low network latency. See Figures 1 and 2.