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Zeus ZXTM ADC and Sun's CMT lead in perf & price-perf

Wednesday Nov 26, 2008

Over that the Zeus website, they posted information on Zeus Technology’s ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager).

Zeus shows performance data from their testing on QC Xeons, older DC Opterons, f5's Big-IP, Citrix, and Sun's CMT on HTTP throughput tests. What the data shows is the Sun Fire T5140 (1.2GHz, 2-socket) is the fastest 2-socket system.

Estimating from the graph the Sun Fire T5140 looks to have almost 3x better price peformance than f5's BIG-IP VIPRION and 2.5x better Citrix.

You can read more about it at:
http://www.zeus.com/news/press_articles/zeus-price-performance-press-release.html?gclid=CLn4jLuuk5cCFQsQagod7gTkJA

As they say, "Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services are converging on SIP and RTP for signaling and real-time media delivery respectively."

I'll post more details on this test as I find them.

Onwards to that most 'merican of holidays, T-day. Enjoy your holiday!

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Posted at 11:51AM Nov 26, 2008 in Benchmark Issues
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"What the data shows is the Sun Fire T5140 (1.2GHz, 2-socket) is the fastest 2-socket system."

It also shows that its twice the price of the Intel Quad Core option.

Posted by Alex on November 27, 2008 at 05:35 AM PST #

Alex: Actually in terms of price/performance Xeon QC has about 10% worse price/performance. I've heard there may be more data made public soon, I will post as soon as I know it can be made public.

Posted by BM Seer on December 08, 2008 at 02:32 PM PST #

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