Preinstalled Test Agent performance characteristics

Below is an overview of performance characteristics of the various hardware models on which Test Agents could be preinstalled in pre-3.0 versions of Paragon Active Assurance. (This hardware is still supported, but is no longer offered for sale.)

Performance numbers for Test Agents installed on Juniper Networks® NFX150 are found on this page.

UDP performance

HW Medium, unidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 2 flows
64	27	40
1518	860	949
9018	801	900

HW Medium, bidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 2 flows
64	14	20
1518	430	474
9018	400	450

HW Medium Plus, unidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 2 flows
64	209	209
1518	937	931
9018	947	941

HW Medium Plus, bidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 2 flows
64	104	104
1518	468	466
9018	473	471

HW Large (1G), unidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 4 flows
64	316	486
1518	937	937
9018	947	941

HW Large (1G), bidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 4 flows
64	158	243
1518	468	468
9018	473	471

HW Large (10G), unidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 4 flows
64	350	500
1518	8599	9800
9018	8910	8910

HW Large (10G), bidirectional

Frame size (bytes)	Rate (Mbit/s), 1 flow	Rate (Mbit/s), 4 flows
64	175	250
1518	4300	4900
9018	4455	4455

Other performance numbers

Performance category	HW Small	HW Medium	HW Medium Plus	HW Large
Unidirectional TCP, multiple sessions	Line rate	Line rate	Line rate	Line rate
	100 Mbit/s	1000 Mbit/s	1000 Mbit/s	10 Gbit/s
IPTV MPEG measurement	90 Mbit/s	300 Mbit/s	900 Mbit/s	3 Gbit/s
Equivalent number of SD channels at 4 Mbit/s	22	75	225	750
Traffic generation performance (packets per second)	19,500 pps	78,000 pps	390,000 pps	390,000 pps
Concurrent TCP sessions	500	500	1000	2000
Accuracy	About 1 ms	About 1 ms	About 1 ms	About 1 ms