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A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:50 pm
by ElZorro
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com ... s.html?m=1
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Our current generation — Jupiter fabrics — can deliver more than 1 Petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth. To put this in perspective, such capacity would be enough for 100,000 servers to exchange information at 10Gb/s each, enough to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than 1/10th of a second.
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Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 5:38 pm
by ElZorro
Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:48 pm
by Sabre
That's some amazing stuff right there! I wonder if they are using something like the Pica8 switches with custom firmware... although they mentioned Finnish writing, so maybe not.
http://cumulusnetworks.com/ was mentioned as a spin-off one of the ex-employee's had which looks fairly interesting. There was mention of several others too. I'd love to know more about FireHose.
Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:51 pm
by complacent
so you're telling me he's poor?
(srs answer, holy f*ck! those are some damn impressive numbers! it's clear as day how much sense this makes. when i think about the number of individual network devices that our company maintains globally, i know this is what it HAS to become eventually.)
Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:00 pm
by Sabre
Makes you wonder... is there going to be a time when more devices look like PC's and you buy hardware, and then add whatever software you want on top of that.
Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:06 pm
by ElZorro
I think Cisco is trying to do this with their ASAs (FirePOWER on ASAs, etc), but they're building on such a big legacy platform... would be great if one of the folks that were building these custom devices would spin them off as a COTS product.
Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:54 pm
by complacent
ElZorro wrote:I think Cisco is trying to do this with their ASAs (FirePOWER on ASAs, etc), but they're building on such a big legacy platform... would be great if one of the folks that were building these custom devices would spin them off as a COTS product.
i am absolutely shocked this hasn't happened yet. the stealth funding round pitch goes something like this:
"former google employees so-and-so teamed up with hardware manufacturer so-and-so..."
DOLLARBUCKS.
Re: A look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:56 pm
by complacent
Sabre wrote:Makes you wonder... is there going to be a time when more devices look like PC's and you buy hardware, and then add whatever software you want on top of that.
totally agree.
*cough* USRP *cough*
