One of our customers bought a special switch with huge buffers, on the order of hundreds of megabytes per port. It was a specialised SKU used only for dedicate

One of our customers bought a special switch with huge buffers, on the order of hundreds of megabytes per port. It was a specialised SKU used only for dedicated backup networks. As in, networks that process only the traffic for disaster recovery backups. Latency on that type of network traffic is totally irrelevant, and the only thing that matters is achieving the maximum possible throughput — whatever the wire protocol allows. That’s the one time I’ve seen exactly 10 Gbps sustained.