E-cast: Comparing Network Appliance Throughput Across 2 Generations of Intel Core Platforms

Summary: Ever-increasing network traffic keeps system designers of application servers, network appliances, and other packet-processing devices constantly looking for new platforms that can cost effectively increase throughput. For this market, the 2011 introduction of 2nd generation Intel Core processors (based on Intel microarchitecture formerly codenamed Sandy Bridge) offers real performance gains over previous generation architecture.