Performance Testing
In February 2007, 3SP Ltd conducted performance benchmarking of the SSL-Explorer solution using a test bed platform of three systems using different specifications of hardware. The benchmarking was conducted with the assumption that a minimum 256 kbit/s data throughput rate would be a realistic value to place upon a responsive VPN tunnel for use such as remote desktop access. The BEA jRockit JRE was used in all tests on both Microsoft Windows and Linux systems.
The results obtained indicated that:
- An entry-level PC based upon a 1.8 GHz Athlon with 768 MB RAM was able to sustain 144 concurrent tunnels at 256 kbit/s (36 Mbit/s overall throughput on Windows, 46 Mbit/s on Linux),
- A mid-spec PC based upon a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM sustained 192 concurrent tunnels (overall 49 Mbit/s throughput on Windows, 61 Mbit/s on Linux)
- A high-spec PC using a Core 2 Duo 6600 with 4 GB RAM sustained 528 tunnels (overall throughput of 135 Mbit/s on Windows, 168 Mbit/s on Linux)
SSL-Explorer is known to operate successfully using the nCipher nFast LN1200 SSL Accelerator card .
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