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The Tolly Group, Inc. #204925
"Tolly Benchmarks" Vol. 2 No. 5
Release date: 01 January 2004
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Industry notables such as Avaya, Dell, Foundry Networks, NEC and Symbol Technologies are featured in the January 26th issue of Tolly Benchmarks, a regular advertising supplement in Network World newspaper.
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Intel Corporation #203141
Network Processor - Broadband Router and AP Performance
Release date: 23 December 2003
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Intel Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of several commercially available 802.11 wireless gateways (wireless broadband routers and access points) that utilize the Intel IXP425 and the Intel
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Spirent Communications #203140
WebAvalanche Scalability
Release date: 20 December 2003
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Spirent Communications commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the scalability produced by clustering its Avalanche 2200 and Reflector 2200, a pair of network capacity assessment tools for testing Layer 4 to Layer 7 tra
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The Tolly Group, Inc. #203401
User Study: Enterprise VoIP
Release date: 10 December 2003
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This white paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the preparedness of enterprise IT organizations for the deployment of VoIP. The report, based upon exhaustive interviews with more than 50 enterprise IT architects,
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Meru Networks, Inc. #203128
WLAN VoIP, QoS & Scalability
Release date: 03 December 2003
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Meru Networks, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its Meru Wireless LAN System, which consists of the Meru Access Point and the Meru Controller. The Meru AP supports 802.11 standards. The Meru Controller is a
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Packeteer, Inc. #203510
WAN Compression and Bandwidth Management
Release date: 06 November 2003
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This white paper examines and discusses the key elements of Application Traffic Management: Monitoring, Bandwidth Management and Compression. Packeteer commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate how the compression and ban
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Inkra Networks Corp. #203127
Gigabit Firewall Throughput
Release date: 03 November 2003
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Inkra Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its Inkra 4000 Virtual Service Switch (VSS), a 14-slot chassis-based device that supports multiple virtual services, including firewall, VPN, intrusion detection, l
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Aruba Wireless Networks #203126
WLAN VPN Performance
Release date: 23 October 2003
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Aruba Wireless Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its Aruba 5000 Wireless LAN Switch and its Aruba 52 access point. The Aruba 5000 is a four-slot WLAN switch with an integrated VPN gateway that operates at
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NEC America, Inc. #203142
VoIP over Wireless
Release date: 21 October 2003
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NEC. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its WL2000 Series Wireless Switch and NEC WL1200 Access Point. The WL2000 Series Wireless Switch offers up to 24 10/100 Ethernet interfaces to provide Ethernet switching capa
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Foundry Networks #203120
ServerIron 400 Performance
Release date: 20 October 2003
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Foundry Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the performance scalability and the Denial-of-Service attack prevention capabilities of the ServerIron 400.
Extensive performance testing was conducted
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Mailblocks, Inc (AOL) #203121
Anti-Spam: Challenge/Response vs. Filtering
Release date: 16 October 2003
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Mailblocks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the effectiveness of its Mailblocks Challenge/Response 2.0 anti-spam service against five anti-spam solutions that utilize advanced filtering techniques: Brightmail, I
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3Com Corp. #203133
4060 Switch Interoperability
Release date: 15 October 2003
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3Com Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2 interoperability of the 3Com Switch 4060, a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch designed for use in network backbones. The Tolly Group engineers put the 3Com Sw
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3Com Corp. #203132
4400 Switch Interoperability
Release date: 15 October 2003
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3Com Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2 interoperability of the SuperStack 3 Switch 4400, a 24-port Fast Ethernet switch for enterprise networks. The Tolly Group engineers put the SuperStack 3 Swi
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Airespace, Inc. (Cisco) #203123
VoIP over Wireless
Release date: 03 October 2003
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Airespace, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its Airespace 4000 Wireless Switch and Airespace 1200 Access Point. The Airespace 4000 Wireless Switch offers up to 24 10/100 Ethernet interfaces to provide Ethern
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Nortel #203137
8600 Switch Interoperability
Release date: 01 October 2003
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Nortel Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2/Layer 3 interoperability of the Passport 8600 Routing Switch Enterprise Switch, a chassis-based Ethernet switch for campus and enterprise networks. The
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Enterasys Networks #203139
Matrix N3 Switch Interoperability
Release date: 01 October 2003
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Enterasys Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2/Layer 3 interoperability of the Matrix N3 Enterprise Switch, a three-slot chassis-based Ethernet switch for enterprise networks. The Tolly Group eng
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Foundry Networks #203138
FastIron Switch Interoperability
Release date: 01 October 2003
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Foundry Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2/Layer 3 interoperability of the FastIron® Edge Switch 9604, a chassis-based Ethernet switch for campus and enterprise networks. The Tolly Group engine
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Nortel #203136
1424T Switch Interoperability
Release date: 01 October 2003
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Nortel Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2/Layer 3 interoperability of the Passport 1424T Routing Switch Enterprise Switch, a 24-port Layer 3 Fast Ethernet switch for campus and enterprise netwo
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Dell Inc. #203134
3348 Switch Interoperability
Release date: 01 October 2003
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Dell, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2 interoperability of the PowerConnect 3348, a 48-port Fast Ethernet switch with two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports. The Tolly Group engineers put the PowerCon
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Dell Inc. #203135
5224 Switch Interoperability
Release date: 01 October 2003
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Dell, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2 interoperability of the PowerConnect 5224, a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch. The Tolly Group engineers put the PowerConnect 5224 through a battery of tests
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Intel Corporation #203124
Embedded Processor Performance
Release date: 21 September 2003
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Intel Corporation commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of its Ultra Low Voltage Intel® Celeron® processors operating at 400 MHz and 650 MHz alongside a pair of VIA Technologies, Inc. mainboard CPUs
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Mailblocks, Inc (AOL) #203507
Anti-Spam: Challenge/Response Comparison
Release date: 20 September 2003
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This Tolly Group white paper provides a hands-on independent evaluation of the effectiveness of several anti-spam solutions based on Challenge/ Response technology.
The report, “Competitive Evaluation of S
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Ingate Systems, AB #203119
SIP Gateway
Release date: 19 September 2003
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Ingate Systems commissioned The Tolly Group to conduct a functionality evaluation of its SIParator™ 40, an adjunct processor that works in conjunction with installed firewalls and enables the traversal of real-time SIP-b
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The Tolly Group, Inc. #203400
User Study: Network Security
Release date: 10 January 2003
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In this report detailing results of a survey of 52 enterprise network architects conducted during December 2002, The Tolly Group captures a snapshot of the technology choices users plan to make in their deployment of net
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Dyband (formerly Crosskeys) #201302
Bandwidth Management
Release date: 15 January 2001
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Dyband commissioned The Tolly Group to perform a functional evaluation of its Dyband bandwidth management solution.
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WRQ, Inc. #200503
Web-to-Host
Release date: 01 June 2000
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WRQ, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the various factors related to accessing mainframe (S/390) and mid-range (AS/400) applications using traditional means versus new browser-based access mechanisms. <
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Indus River Networks, Inc.(Enterasys) #199125
Enterprise VPN
Release date: 01 August 1999
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Indus River Networks, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to test its RiverWorks Enterprise VPN against Nortel Networks’ Contivity Extranet Switch 4000 (CES 4000) and TimeStep Corp.’s PERMIT/Gate 7520. Tests were conducted
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Wandel & Golterman (Wavetek WG) #199501
Network Troubleshooting
Release date: 01 February 1999
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Network analysis and troubleshooting traditionally has involved a combination of rather basic network analyzers in the hands of highly-skilled and experienced network engineers. However, that model is now undergoing a
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Citrix Systems, Inc. #199503
TCA Study
Release date: 15 January 1999
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Citrix Systems, Inc.
commissioned The Tolly Group to produce a Total Cost of Application Ownership (TCA) white paper which presents an in-depth and logical look into analyzing th
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The Tolly Group, Inc. #8901
TR Switching - 1998
Release date: 01 September 1998
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The Tolly Group evaluated key performance aspects of token ring switches: aggregate frame throughput
across a single stream (measuring throughput for 28-, 64-, 128-, 512-, 1024-, and 3,972-byte frames. The
Tolly Group
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Xedia Corporation (Lucent) #8290
Competitive QoS vs Cisco
Release date: 01 September 1998
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Xedia Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the traffic management capabilities of its Access Point 45 router vs. the Committed Access Rate bandwidth management technique implemented by Cisco Systems.
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Torrent Networking Technologies, Inc. (Ericsson) #8276
IP9000 Performance
Release date: 01 May 1998
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Torrent Networking Technologies Corp commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the performance of its IP9000 Gigabit Router.
This 16-port Fast Ethernet device was put through a number of "carrier class" test
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Acclaim Communications, Inc. (Intel) #8261
3200 Multi-service Access Device
Release date: 01 February 1998
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Acclaim Communications, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its 3200 Multi-Service Access Device which integrates data, voice and fax over a frame relay network.
Data traffic consisted of both IP and IPX streams.
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3Com Corp. #8251
SuperStack 9300 Gigabit Swtiching
Release date: 10 January 1998
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3Com Corporation commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the Gigabit Ethernet switching performance of the Super-
Stack® II Switch 9300. The Tolly Group conducted steady state throughput testing of up to 12 full duple
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Cabletron Systems, Inc. (Enterasys/Riverstone) #8253
Token Ring Heterogeneous Switching
Release date: 01 January 1998
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Cabletron Systems commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark its SmartSwitch 9000 interfacing with various popular corporate backone technologies.
The testing evaluated Token Ring to Ethernet using translation
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Foundry Networks #8254
IP and IPX Routing
Release date: 01 January 1998
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Foundry Networks commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet Routing performance of its NetIron outfitted with 16 Fast Ethernet and two Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces.
Both IP
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Acclaim Communications, Inc. (Intel) #8262
EtherWAN Switch Performance
Release date: 01 January 1998
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Acclaim Communications Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of its 2032 EtherWAN Switch - a LAN switch with 32 Fast Ethernet ports.
Tests included performance, latency and head-of-lin
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3Com Corp. #8252
SuperStack 3900 Fast Ethernet
Release date: 01 January 1998
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3Com Corporation commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the Fast Ethernet switching performance of the Super-
Stack® II Switch 3900, a 36-port Fast Ethernet switch supporting up to three Gigabit Ethernet uplinks.
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Compaq Corp. (HP) #7299
Switched 10 vs. Shared 100
Release date: 11 November 1997
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Compaq Corp commissioned The Tolly Group to determine which technology – Switched 10 and Shared 100 – is most appropriate for
which network environments. The Tolly Group set out to test exactly how each one performs
in
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Foundry Networks #7308
L2 Switching and Router Assist
Release date: 01 November 1997
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Foundry Networks commissioned The
Tolly Group to benchmark the Fast Ethernet
and Gigabit Ethernet performance characteristics
of the FastIron Backbone Switch.
This device is a 16 port Fast Ethernet switch
that inclu
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Ascend Comm. (Lucent) #7306
ATM OC-12 Performance
Release date: 01 November 1997
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Ascend Communications commissioned
The Tolly Group to test the
ATM OC-12 (622 Mbit/s) forwarding
performance of its GRF™ 1600 and
GRF 400. The Tolly Group determined
aggregate throughput by sending streams
of traff
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BMC Software, Inc #7304
WAN Optimization vs. Cisco
Release date: 01 October 1997
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BMC Software commissioned The
Tolly Group to benchmark the effective
throughput and CPU resource consumption
of real-time data compression implementations
offered by BMC Software and
Cisco Systems. BMC Software’s PA
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Digital Equipment Corp. (Compaq) #7302
Fast Ethernet Switching
Release date: 01 October 1997
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Digital Equipment Corporation commissioned
The Tolly Group to benchmark the switching
throughput of the Digital Equipment Corporation
MultiSwitch 900/VNswitch 900 with the
Cisco Systems, Inc., Catalyst 5000, and the
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NetSoft, Inc. #7271
AS/400 Services to Windows Clients
Release date: 01 April 1997
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For more than a decade, network administrators have been integrating the AS/400 with PCbased
networks, and today the reasons to do so are more compelling than ever: Some of
IBM’s recent enhancements to the AS/400 have
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NetSoft, Inc. #7269
Host Access
Release date: 01 January 1997
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Ongoing support for SNA clients in a large enterprise network can be expensive. Annual
support costs in hundreds of thousands of dollars are not uncommon. To address this problem,
NetSoft developed innovative technique
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3Com Corp. #6273
TR Switching vs. Madge
Release date: 01 October 1996
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3Com Corporation commissioned The
Tolly Group to evaluate the performance
of the 3Com SuperStack II Switch
2000 TR and compare it to the performance
of the Madge Smart Ringswitch.
The frame-processing ca
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Citrix Systems, Inc. #6269
Winframe Scalability
Release date: 15 August 1996
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Citrix commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the performance and scalabilitiy of its Winframe/Enterprise product.
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Microsoft Corporation #6254
AS/400 Access
Release date: 17 March 1996
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Microsoft Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to evalute the performance of several means of accessing AS/400 resources.
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Cisco Systems, Inc #6253
ISDN Solutions
Release date: 17 March 1996
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Cisco Systems commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the SoHo ISDN support of key WAN Router products.
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3Com Corp. #5279
3Com NETBuilder Remote Office
Release date: 05 December 1995
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3Com Corporation commissioned The Tolly
Group to conduct an evaluation of branch office connectivity using
NETBuilder Remote Office (NBRO) routers. To accomplish this task, The Tolly
Group designed a typic
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Cisco Systems, Inc #5282
TR Switching
Release date: 01 September 1995
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Cisco Systems, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the throughput and latency of its Catalyst 1600 Token Ring switch versus that of the Bay Networks' Speedswitch 100.
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RDC Communications, LTD. (Marconi) #5281
Wireless LANs
Release date: 01 September 1995
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RDC Communications Ltd. Commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate their PortLAN PCMCIA Wireless LAN Adapter and compare it to products from AT&T, Proxim and Xircom.
The Tolly Group evaluated the products for pe
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Cylink Corporation #5264
Wireless Bridge
Release date: 01 May 1995
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Cylink Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to test the frames-per-second handling capacity of the Cylink AirLink (wireless) bridge and to demonstrate the bridge's ability to connect Ethernet LANs at extended distances.
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Microsoft Corporation #4308
SNA Server Comparative Performance
Release date: 12 December 1994
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Microsoft Corp. commissioned The Tolly Group to evalute the performance of its mainframe access server, SNA Server, versus a similar product from Novell. br>
Testing illustrated that the Microsoft solution provi
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