Abstract

Ascend Communications commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Ascend MAX 4048 and the Total Control Hub from U.S. Robotics. The Tolly Group conducted performance benchmarks on the products in a variety of configurations utilizing actual FTP (File Transfer Protocol) session traffic. The performance testing was conducted across both 56 Kbit/s and 33.6 Kbit/s asynchronous modems. The products being tested were configured with the most current software and hardware available at the time of the test. Testing was performed in June of 1997.

The tests delivered data to the clients from one to 46 simultaneous client connections, via FTP. The testing showed that the Ascend MAX 4048 exhibited better effective throughput at every data point measured for 56 Kbit/s modems than the U.S. Robotics Total Control Enterprise Network Hub. With the 33.6 Kbit/s modems, at every point other than the single user connection (with a compressed file) the MAX 4048 exhibited higher throughput than the Total Control Hub.