Anyone have worked with the switching vendor Quanta for their 10ge switching as TOR? [1] Their spec looked interesting and they are quiet cheap.
[1] http://www.quantaqct.com/en/01_product/02_detail.php?mid=30&sid=114&id=116&qs=63 -bn 0216331C On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > On 12/02/2013 14:23, Piotr wrote: > > shared 9 MB packet buffer > > pool that is allocated dynamically to ports that are congested > > > > 9MB is a standard size of port buffers.. > > That's pretty standard for a cut-thru ToR switch of this style. Cut-thru > switches generally need a lot less packet buffer space than store-n-forward > switches. Also, ToR boxes tend not to have complex qos requirements. > > Having said that, you need to be careful deploying small-buffer boxes. If > you're not careful, you will end up with bad packet loss. > > Nick > > > >
