We have 40Gb backbones throughout our data center. Most of the older hardware doesn’t support that fat of a connection, but more and more stuff is beginning to. We’re getting ready to deploy some Cisco Hyperflex devices next month that are all flash storage, and everything between them and our core is 40 Gb fiber. We’re going to have some screaming fast VMs.
-D > On Oct 19, 2021, at 9:10 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 100Gb exists, I presume it's trunk lines between major providers like > Telcos... > We support 40Gb/s clients at work. That's 4000MB/s to the client. To support > that data rate the storage STARTS at $80,000. For $2.5 million we have a > system that will do 192,000MB/s. You get 2.5PB of storage at that price point. > If you don't mind the system being a little slower (25,600MB/s) you can get a > lot more storage, 10.6PB. > That's raw storage of course, data protection eats up some of the usable > space. > > -Curt > > On Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 08:56:21 PM EDT, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ciena sells a lot of spendy 40Gb optical link gear, it's particularly in > demand > for undersea cable work, where changing the physical plant is basically > NOT an option. I'm sure 100Gb is under active development. Terrestrially, > you just run more 10Gb lines in parallel and use link aggregation. > >> That's about 100MB (megabytes) per second. It seems unlikely that the ISP >> could actually support that for thousands of subscribers. > > To whom are 'you' talking that fast? The ISP is just the man in the middle, > they count on the net aggregate being something they can handle, that the > two endpoints, collectively, don't/can't saturate the fabric too much of the > time. > Of course, staying ahead of that curve IS their business. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
