[129972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James P. Ashton)
Fri Sep 24 08:52:09 2010
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "James P. Ashton" <james@gitflorida.com>
To: Venkatesh Sriram <vnktshsriram@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikFdokTjZOxhD3orWZSmJcKgXe8TD3VGNe+-TPB@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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The biggest difference that I see is that you generally use different resources in a Datacenter. (Colo Datacenter).
For example, I run out of HSRP groups on a 6500 long before I run out of ports or capacity. I don't need to worry about QoS much but a less complex rate limit command (As opposed to Policing) is very useful. Also, Front to back cooling is optimal in a Datacenter and often not available.
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Venkatesh Sriram" <vnktshsriram@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:22:22 AM
Subject: Routers in Data Centers
Hi,
Can somebody educate me on (or pass some pointers) what differentiates
a router operating and optimized for data centers versus, say a router
work in the metro ethernet space? What is it thats required for
routers operating in data centers? High throughput, what else?
Thanks, Venkatesh
