File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

L. Avramov
J. Rapp

Stream:

IETF

Source:

bmwg (ops)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8238

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Abstract

The purposes of this informational document are to establish definitions and describe measurement techniques for data center benchmarking, as well as to introduce new terminology applicable to performance evaluations of data center network equipment. This document establishes the important concepts for benchmarking network switches and routers in the data center and is a prerequisite for the test methodology document (RFC 8239). Many of these terms and methods may be applicable to network equipment beyond the scope of this document as the technologies originally applied in the data center are deployed elsewhere.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.