On 5/18/11 4:52 PM, "Steve Howard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>The traffic to/from the U shot up today. I'm guessing that is CDN
>related?
>
>The link between the CNS switch and the MICE switch shot up to ~850Mbps
>today. Too bad that is only a single gig connection!
Changing later when the 2 new switches go into place.
>It is great to have the traffic on the exchange, but we should probably
>deal with this nearly saturated link fast. Here are a few possible
>solutions:
>
>1) Add another Gig connection. We'd probably need to pay FWR for a
>cross-connect (CNS is paying for the first one) with this option;
>
>2) Use one of the new Juniper switches with a 10Gig interface and
>connect that to a 10Gig interface on the existing MICE 10Gig switch,
>then move some of the 1Gig members over to those ports. This would
>require purchase of 10Gig optics for the Juniper and the existing 10Gig
>MICE switch;
This will probably be happening.
>4) Encourage MICE members on the 1Gig switch to upgrade to a 10Gig
>connection;
Don't see how that helps.
>5) Ask the U to not advertise some of the members on the 1Gig switch to
>CDNs (if that is the cause of the traffic load). This is a bummer if
>you are one of the networks that gets left out. I really don't like
>this option -- we are finally getting real traffic on the exchange and
>then we'd be cutting back.
That'd be silly.
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