Performance and Recommended Use of AD385A 10 Gigabit Ethernet SR Cards

Scalability Tests
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An aggregate throughput of 37 Gigabits/second was achieved for receive traffic with four
adapters when operating at 9000 MTU. The receive performance with one, two, three and
four AD385A adapters is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5
10 Gigabit Ethernet Receive Scalability Tests
10GigE Receive Scaling on rx8640
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10^6 bits per second
1500MTU
9107.88 18393.67 27507.1 35120.05
9000MTU
9148.69 18528.06 27778.97 36925.9
1 adapter 2 adapters 3 adapters 4 adapters