Abstract

Tolly Group excerpt #202126-1p (May 2002) highlights Redback’s SmartEdge 800 Router high-availability design. The one-page snapshot confirms that:

• Performance scale. Hardware forwarding engines deliver 70 million packets per second while supporting 2,000 MPLS VPNs with 750,000 aggregate VPN routes and up to 32,000 virtual interfaces across Fast/Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, POS, and channelized T-3 links  .

• Route-processor resilience. Failover from the active to the standby cross-connect route processor occurs with zero packet loss, ensuring uninterrupted forwarding during hardware faults  .

• Process restart protection. Restarting BGP, IS-IS, or OSPF—each carrying hundreds of thousands of routes—likewise incurs zero packet loss, validating the router’s graceful-restart framework  .

These data points reinforce the full report’s conclusion that SmartEdge 800 delivers carrier-class reliability and scalability, sustaining traffic during processor failover and protocol restarts while providing ample route and interface capacity for large edge-aggregation deployments.

This is a one-page summary of the full test report.