How do cisco routers rate performance-wise?

People often ask about performance of the cisco routers and are shyed
away from answering their questions because we don't know where to send
them.

Scott Bradner keeps the results of his performance tests on the
Internet.  You can find them for ftp on the system hsdndev.harvard.edu
in the /pub/ndtl.  There is a README file in that directory that
explains what is available.  In addition, cisco has just started
publishing a piece of literature called ``The Harvard Benchmark Test
Results: Summary of cisco Systems Performance''.  The only number I
can find on the doc is Lit. #700901.  Don't know if you can order it
by this number, but at least there's a title to go on.