[195924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IOS new versions and network load
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Beecher)
Sat Sep 23 03:17:48 2017
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From: Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:09:19 -0400
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG <Nanog@nanog.org>
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There are also considerations with the throughput capability of the
hardware too.
500T in a couple RU is nice and all, but if the box can only push ~15Gbps
because of bottlenecks in hardware, or the kernel isn't tuned, it's might
be a lot less useful depending on the content, as Jared points out.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:34:41PM -0500, Aaron Gould wrote:
> > My Netflix servers are half a petabyte of cached movies and they are
> about 18 inches tall .... not sure what you mean.
>
> Serving different file types requires different things. If you
> are serving the same episodes from storage it's much different than
> live content, or serving dynamic updates based on entitlement
> levels, etc.
>
> Not all CDNs are like Netflix, for better or worse.
>
> - Jared
>
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> mine.
>
