Benchmark results for MAR (Per Connection)

As of Friday Night (5/2/08), half of the Benchmarking for the current version of MAR was finnished. The Half that was finished, was the Benchmarking TCP Bandwidth. The Server used for ipef was not accepting UDP connections for some reason so that needed to be delayed until later. Now the port is working for UDP as well and the Benchmarking for UDP will be completed Tomorrow afternoon (5/6/08).

The results for TCP benchmarking, as predicted, show that MAR does not effect the overall bandwidth. This makes sense because the bottleneck here is the PPPoE connection.  Further UDP testing will determine our results for Latency, Jitter, and Packet Loss percentage. We expect these will show the crux of our engineering tradeoffs (i.e. we expect poorer performance).  Obviously we would like only slightly poorer, or negligibly poorer,  performance difference.