[149067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE TOR port buffers (was Re: 10G switch recommendaton)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bas)
Fri Jan 27 18:24:50 2012
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09C965FC@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:24:06 +0100
From: bas <kilobit@gmail.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:01 AM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
> Going to 4 10G aggregated uplinks instead of 2 might get you a much better performance boost than increasing buffers.
> But it really depends on the end to end application.
Also these TOR boxes go to my (more expensive ASR9K and MX) boxes, so
from an CAPEX standpoint I simply do not want to give them more ports
than required.
