PRX-5G is a high-performance traffic management system for large operators with up to 500,000 subscribers, Gigabit Ethernet or 10-Gigabit-Ethernet infrastructure and data rates up to 4 Gbit/s. It provides fail-safe operation through its integrated bypass and optional system redundancy.
Key Features
- 4 Gbit/s and 700,000 packets/s throughput
- 3 Gigabit Ethernet links (up to 2 fiber links)
- 1 optional 10-Gigabit Ethernet link (CX4 or XFP)
- Asymmetric traffic support
- Policy management for up to 500,000 subscribers
- 20 million concurrent flows
- Integrated hardware bypass
- Optional flow-based subscriber reporting
Tested by EANTC 2008
ipoque's PRX-5G Internet Traffic Manager excelled in an independent
performance test of traffic management gear conducted by the European Advanced
Networking Test Center (EANTC). 28 equipment vendors had been invited and 5 of
these - including ipoque - decided to participate in the test. The results are
published at internet evolution. Besides ipoque, only one other vendor agreed to
the publication of the results.
The results prove that ipoque
PRX-5G provides a near 100 percent detection
accuracy at full gigabit network load making it the ideal choice bandwidth
management solution for carriers and large ISPs. As noted in EANTC's summary
report, "EANTC engineers configured a multi service, carrier grade test setup
to challenge the product by a large number of parallel P2P sessions/protocols
and legacy Internet services alike." The tests were conducted using carrier-grade
IP routers in conjunction with test equipment from Ixia and Shenick. In various
scenarios found in today's real-world networks, the testers generated over 3
million parallel sessions at a data rate of 971 Mbit/s with a mix of P2P and
legacy Internet applications. The Ixia and Shenick analysis systems were used
to emulate 134,115 IP clients with individual TCP stacks plus 2,000 IP clients
running latency-sensitive applications like IPTV and VoIP.
Important Note
The EANTC test was conducted in September 2007. The test conditions did not allow firmware updates during the test phase. Regular firmware and signature updates are part of ipoque's offering to its customers making sure that new and updated applications are reliably detected. The few detection issues mentioned in the test results were intermittent at the time of the test and had already been solved for ipoque's regular customers.
For more information about the test methodology and the results in detail please download the test report.
