> > In the articles I've read and videos I've watched, they have mentioned > varying amounts of reduced power. I didn't commit them to memory because > that wasn't the part I was interested in at the moment.
The aggregate power load from the 1U boxes is by itself generally ( but not always ) going to be less than the equivalent sized big chassis. ( If you start having to add middle stages that can sometimes not hold true. ) On top of that, many designs allow for DACs to be used for a large percentage of connections, which also has significant power savings. On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 8:28 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > In the articles I've read and videos I've watched, they have mentioned > varying amounts of reduced power. I didn't commit them to memory because > that wasn't the part I was interested in at the moment. > > Management of the things is a big thing I've been concerned about going > into more modern systems. So often there's hand waiving regarding the > orchestration piece of non-traditional systems. From what I've seen (and I > would love to be wrong), you either build it in-house (not a small lift) or > you buy something that ends up taking away all of the cost advantages that > path had. > > Failure domain stuff is part of what I'm trying to learn more about, which > goes back to more about the fundamentals of how the fabric works. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > *To: *"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > *Sent: *Monday, December 23, 2024 6:05:12 PM > *Subject: *Re: Distributed Router Fabrics > > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 10:15 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > >> >> Actually, as I read more about it and watch more videos about it, it >> seems like that isn't necessarily true. The claims they have at the top end >> surpass what any chassis platform I've seen is capable of, though I don't >> know that they actually have pushed the upper bounds of what's possible in >> the real world. >> >> > I wonder how large a failure domain folk are willing to accept. > > I also don't know that it's actually better to have 1 thing vs N things, > since management of the > things is probably the expensive part (once you get past space/power which > don't seem to be > part of the calculations here (not in my brief read of the thread at > least). > > -chris > >
