18 Mar
2013
18 Mar
'13
2:10 p.m.
The Netflix guys wiring up a fully loaded ASR9010 with 118 single mode fibers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyb-nnRNwfw
For those who don't know yet, Netflix is an online movie rental company and uses so much bandwidth that they had to push out their own CDN boxes to ISPs and IXPs.
Their CDN boxes are almost stock FreeBSD 9.1 based, contain some 35 HDDs at 4TB plus a couple of SSDs and push about 15Gbit/s *each* during the evening hours. They are limited by HDD (seek) bandwidth.
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Andre