Abstract

VINA Technologies, Ltd. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its VINA eRouter, a T1-based router for small and medium businesses that give multiple users access to the Internet or their wide area networks (WAN) over reliable broadband T1 lines. The Tolly Group tested the eRouter to determine its steady-state, zero-loss bidirectional throughput when transmitting data across T1 connections when handling a variety of standard Ethernet frame sizes. Tolly Group engineers compared the zero-loss throughput of the VINA eRouter against four other T1 access routers from three vendors: an ADTRAN Total Access 616-TDM and a TA 600R-TDM, a Cisco Systems 1720 and a Netopia R5300.