High volume (ex: Iot) and large rich packet applications are driving requirements for ever lower latency and increased bandwidth. This presentation discusses the issues and remedies to address these two important data center considerations.
3. The Impact of Latency
• Study by Akamai
• 1 second delay in page load speed
• 16% drop in customer satisfaction
• Rich packet applications are more
demanding
• Ex: Netflix
• IoT
• “Instantaneous” packet processing
• Critical for many applications
• Ex: Real time inventory
• Data reads and writes
• No such thing as a multi-availability zone public
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6. Solving the Latency Issue
• For now it’s geographical
• Moving data as close to the end user as
possible
• Edge data centers
• Emerging
• Micro datacenters
• Cisco FOG architecture
• Any device can be a data collection point
• Must have computing, storage and network
connectivity
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8. The Traditional Network
• Access via public means
• Internet
• Too many “chokepoints”
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Source: Forrester
9. An Alternative Approach
• Presented to a Compass customer
• Direct Peering
• Direct cloud connectivity
• Eliminate public internet
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Graphics courtesy of Equinix
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10. Eliminate the Internal Bottlenecks
• Network only as fast as slowest component
• Backplane contention
• Considerations:
• Top of rack switching
• Faster switches
• 10, 25, 40, 50, 100GB
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Graphic courtesy of Mellanix
11. Summary
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• Speed of delivery will only continue to grow
• Lower latency
• Higher bandwidth speeds
• The important question:
• Can the network support what you want to do?
• Must eliminate contention/chokepoints
• Internal and external
• Failure to do so will result in:
• Ineffective operation
• Customer dissatisfaction
• Must find partners agile enough to quickly adapt