Wire Speed Performance

As service providers continue to deliver more services, they have greater Quality of Service (QoS), scalability and bandwidth requirements, thus increasing the need for first-class routing products to meet these demands.

You might hear the phrase "wire speed performance" used more often to describe routers. This phrase means that the router can forward as many data packets to a network per second as the network bandwidth allows. Routers with wire speed performance can process data and route traffic without reducing the overall transmission rate.

In traditional routers, software and other advanced features added to the router, such as security filters and access control, often degrade router performance because they require more instructions to process every data packet, thus creating bottlenecks in the transmission process.

However, some routers, such as ImageStream's Linux routers, can maintain wire speed performance for a variety of network interfaces, without the bottlenecks. ImageStream builds its Linux Industrial routers with hardware acceleration, which eliminates the performance loss with security and other advanced features, and enables them to deliver the highest throughput at wire speed.