On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> > > What type of connections do I get to your setup? One cable to the
> > > client farm/ to the server farm, or one cable to each of the nodes
> > > (ie many cables)? Is the connection 100MBps, 1GBps?
> >
> > Good questions. We can do either or both. I think this configuration
> > issue should be discussed by potential participants before a final
> > decision can be made.
>
> it's a big difference. One cable to the clients and one to
> the servers limits you to 100Mbps. An unlimited number of
> cables means the sky is the limit. These are two different
> categories of L-4 switches.
I was thinking one (or a few) Gbit cables versus many 100Mbit cables.
I am sure we would have to allow for total throughput that exceeds
100Mbit levels.
In case of Gbit link(s), some device(s) (fast L2 switches?) will have
to aggregate the traffic.
The primary difference, IMO, is the number of ports that a switch will
be able to use. Different switches have different designs that will
benefit (or not) from many ports being utilized given the same total
load. I expect some serious fights among vendors before we can reach a
consensus or decide to use two hard-to-compare configurations.
Thanks,
Alex.
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