4 ms·

i.e. 1Tbps? Jeez! That is crazy.

• josh2600 11y ago
  If you are moving bits from $External_DC to AWS, your best bet is to colo inside Equinix (or equivalent) and use their cross-connect to AWS service. If you have 100 fiber interconnects between you and AWS, you can move a lot of data (it becomes an interesting programming problem to figure out how to saturate that much fiber consistently). In terms of your customers getting data to you, again, fiber interconnects inside the DC are your best bet. Colo'ing is the fastest way to move bits because it relies on arteries, not capillaries, for moving bits from place to place (no last mile problem).
  • jamwt 11y ago
    Yes, balancing links and distributing work w/out congestion collapse became a really interesting and nontrivial problem.
    • josh2600 11y ago
      I can't even imagine. Did you guys get into custom network hardware or still a Juniper/Cisco shop?
      • scurvy 11y ago
        Juniper QFX from what I've heard.