[130045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Armstrong)
Sun Sep 26 18:58:26 2010
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:18:05 +0100
From: Adam Armstrong <lists@memetic.org>
To: Venkatesh Sriram <vnktshsriram@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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On 24/09/2010 11:22, Venkatesh Sriram wrote:
> 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?
Depending upon the specific requirements of the scenario at each type of
site, the optimal devices could be either identical, or completely
different.
:)
adam.
