load balancer models and performance

Hello list,



Looking at load balancer options to purchase for our medium sized company.
We’ve been looking at F5, Netscaler and  Cisco.



We were looking for a capacity of 1-2 Gbps SSL/load balance. We got a little
confused with F5 models.  1600 series was out of question as it’s datasheet
used to say 750 Mbps and we were looking at 3600 or 6900.



However there are new datasheets now which say 1600 is 1 Gbps a nd 3600 is 2
Gbps (used to be 1.5 Gbps). Naturally we are confused. Does anyone have
clear numbers for this? Why did the specs change all of a sudden? any change
on the CPU/HW? As far as I know these are new models which came out very
recently and there is no recent major software release in the devcentral to
justify the improvements in the datasheets.


Thoughts/opinions? If anyone has field performance experience with these
models it will be very valuable for us, we don't have much time to test
every vendor and each model.

Andre

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