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by Hikikomori 663 days ago
https://www.fmad.io/blog/what-is-10g-line-rate

As the article calls it, the gold standard. If a device is capable of forwarding/switching packets at the smallest packet size line rate on all interfaces at the same time you don't have to think too much about its performance when designing your network. Haven't worked much with hardware for a few years but it was common that Cisco switches were not capable of this.

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Gold standard sure, but that doesn't make it the definition of line rate.