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> That is going from 16Tbps to 32Tbps per Rack ... only need 200 racks I doubt ISP's give an entire rack to Netflix. I wouldn't be surprised if they only get l
by alberth 4y ago
> That is going from 16Tbps to 32Tbps per Rack ... only need 200 racks
I doubt ISP's give an entire rack to Netflix. I wouldn't be surprised if they only get like 4U total (hence why throughput per server is so important to Netflix).
- BonoboIO 4y agoThe minimum requirements https://openconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034538352-Requirements-for-deploying-embedded-appliances https://openconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600345383... I think it depends on the size of isp, probably a rack would be too much even for the biggest isps, but one 4u too less.
- TFortunato 4y agoLooking at the banner pic on their main page, they seem to have at least one ISP install of multiple racks in the wild. Also, doing a little reading on how "fill" of the devices works, they talk about doing peer-to-peer filling of appliances located at the same site, which leads me to believe, even if not deploying a full rack, deploying multiple appliances to an ISP site is a relatively normal occurance https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/peering/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/peering/
- meltedcapacitor 4y agoWhy not? It's top bandwidth consumer for a retail ISP and surely any reasonable amount of rack space is worth the savings in interconnect bandwidth.
- loeg 4y agoThey are frequently rack space constrained, hence these super dense hardware.
- jedberg 4y agoSome ISPs give a full rack, some don't. It depends on how much traffic they have and how willing they are. But a lot of the racks sit at internet exchange points, where Netflix rents one or more racks at a time.