[129973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Sep 24 11:41:52 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikFdokTjZOxhD3orWZSmJcKgXe8TD3VGNe+-TPB@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:41:29 -0400
To: Venkatesh Sriram <vnktshsriram@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 24, 2010, at 6:22 AM, Venkatesh Sriram wrote:
> Hi,
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> 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?
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> Thanks, Venkatesh
Well, they generally have to be rack mountable. Besides that, I have =
seen everything from=20
tiny Linux boxes to big refrigerator sized units (of course, the latter
may be on the floor). I don't think you are going to find much =
commonality there, so you
need to refine what it is you want to do. (For example, to move 10 Mbps =
or 100 Gbps or... ?=20
Run BGP or NAT or ... ?)
Regards
Marshall=20
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