Abstract

Sun Microsystems, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its GigaSwift Ethernet MMF Adapter v. 3.0, a Gigabit Ethernet adapter with a PCI bus architecture and a multimode fiber physical interface, against a SysKonnect GmbH SK-9843 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, also with a PCI bus architecture and multimode fiber network interface. Each adapter under test was installed on a Sun Microsystems Enterprise 6500 server, outfitted with twelve 400-MHz UltraSPARC CPUs and running Sun’s Solaris 8 operating system.

Sun delivered more than 45% higher Gigabit Ethernet throughput than SysKonnect when sending bidirectional TCP/IP application traffic of 1,518 bytes.

Sun performed nearly 40% better than its competitor when download TCPi/IP applicaton files of 1,518 butes.