LP2000r: Network Test Results

Network Test Results User load Windows NT 4.0 TPS Windows 2000 TPS NetWare TPS 2 1960.54 1960.54 401.92 4 3215.13 3215.13 850.77 6 3390.63 3390.63 916.24 8 3422.40 3422.40 906.83 10 3467.67 3467.67 889.47 12 3482.24 3482.24 887.34 14 3537.41 3537.41 851.93 16 3542.39 3542.39 838.21 18 3556.44 3556.44 802.51 20 3560.97 3560.97 765.35 22 3546.85 3546.85 762.19 24 3533.22 3533.22 753.13 26 3598.24 3598.24 743.29 28 3611.89 3611.89 743.49 30 3554.32 3554.32 731.84 TPS = transactions per second

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Bass, a senior technical staff member at CNL and co-author of McGraw Hill's Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks, designs and leads the execution of the test suites. He can be reached at john_bass@ncsu.edu.

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How we did it
Details of our testing methods.

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