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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Minneapolis, MN
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| Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see This article may as well be about UPS buying bigger planes for its cargo operations. The average customer doesn't care if UPS has to fly 1 or 2 planes from Memphis to Minneapolis to meet the delivery demand for the day, however, flying fewer, bigger, planes makes the logistics operation significantly easier for UPS to manage.
This is all about efficiency at the carrier level, and has no visible impact on end-user services.
(It's huge for the carriers in how they manage their operations, however, hence the press release) | |
|   DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium
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1 edit | Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see hay I want UPS to be able to get my packages to the local UPS location faster so that I might have stuff I order sooner | |
| | | | Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see said by DarkLogix:hay I want UPS to be able to get my packages to th elocal UPS location faster so that I might have stuff I order sooner
LOL
I'd be happy if UPS would just deliver my packages without them looking like 800 pound gorillas have been dancing on them...  | |
| |  LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | said by DarkLogix:hay I want UPS to be able to get my packages to the local UPS location faster so that I might have stuff I order sooner
Funny you should say it that way. Because by having a faster, less congested, more efficient backbone allows Verizon to reduce latency to users of its network.
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| | | espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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| Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see said by Linklist:Funny you should say it that way. Because by having a faster, less congested, more efficient backbone allows Verizon to reduce latency to users of its network. Not necessarily -- the difference in propagation delay of 1500 byte packets is negligible (at least in terms of milliseconds) between a 10Gbps vs a 100Gbps interface.
The big gain here is to be able to drastically reduce interface counts. Today we're pushing 15-16gbps of constant storage replication traffic between our main data centers, but to transit that traffic today we have to spread that out across a minimum of 3x10GigE links (not accounting for redundancy). In order to guarantee in-order packet delivery, the traffic is hashed across multiple links using layer2/layer3/layer4 headers. The downside to that approach is you don't end up with an even distribution of traffic, so you end up needing more interfaces than you'd think to handle the traffic volume. In our case if we drop from 3 down to 2 links, the traffic tends to take a 70/30 split and the wheels fall off the wagon. | |
| | | | DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium
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kudos:3 | Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see well in the full artical they mention the compareison of 10x 10ge vs 1x 100ge as having latency benefites due to (in simple terms) the data actually moving faster like how gig copper uses a higher frenquency than 100meg copper | |
| | | | | espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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| Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see said by DarkLogix:well in the full artical they mention the compareison of 10x 10ge vs 1x 100ge as having latency benefites due to (in simple terms) the data actually moving faster like how gig copper uses a higher frenquency than 100meg copper That's affecting the least important component of latency, namely serialization delay, which is the amount of time it takes to clock all of the bits of a complete packet out an interface.
10GigE = 10,000,000,000bits/sec = 1,250,000,000 bytes/sec. So to clock out a single 1500 byte packet takes 1500 / 1,250,000,000 of a second, or 1.2 microseconds. (0.0012 milliseconds)
So with 100GigE being 10x faster, that means serialization delay is going to be down to 0.12 microseconds, or 0.00012 milliseconds.
The big component of latency is propagation delay, which is a value that is some fraction of the speed of light based on the media in use -- be it photons traveling through glass, or electrons traveling through copper. This value is limited by physics, so it's never going to get better whether you have 100Gigabit interfaces, 100Terabit interfaces, or 100Exabit interfaces.
Propagation delay in the US for traffic between the coasts is about 80 milliseconds. I think it's pretty safe to say that nothing on the Internet is sensitive enough to network latency that the difference between 80.0012ms and 80.00012ms is going to have any kind of impact on how an application functions. | |
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| |  rawgerzThe hell was that?Premium
join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA | In reality they could dramatically reduce latency if they didn't route all traffic through Virginia. | |
| | | | | | Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see I thought all internet traffic was routed through a secret room in SF?  | |
| | | | |  heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
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Fort Lauderdale, FL | Re: Completely unrelated to anything end-users will see said by pende_tim:I thought all internet traffic was routed through a secret room in SF?
No. Its routed through Al Gore's house.
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rawgerzThe hell was that?Premium
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Grove City, PA | Yup. They may as well have said "...this will further reduce costs associated with transport. We could pass the savings on to our customers, but we felt our shareholders deserve it more."
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|  alchav
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Palm Desert, CA | said by espaeth:This article may as well be about UPS buying bigger planes for its cargo operations. The average customer doesn't care if UPS has to fly 1 or 2 planes from Memphis to Minneapolis to meet the delivery demand for the day, however, flying fewer, bigger, planes makes the logistics operation significantly easier for UPS to manage.
This is all about efficiency at the carrier level, and has no visible impact on end-user services.
(It's huge for the carriers in how they manage their operations, however, hence the press release)
This is not entirely true, Backbone upgrades affects everything on The Network. Yes, these large Carriers have Network Control Centers and they could re-route traffic when problems come up, and with these upgrades it gives them more flexibility. Now Verizon with their FTTH can offer their customers the Speed and Bandwidth they need and are willing to pay. AT&T made a mistake going with Copper, but at the time even you guys here thought it was okay. Technology does not wait for anyone! | |
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