On May 19, 2011 12:20 AM, "Owen DeLong" <owend@he.net> wrote:
> On May 18, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Steve Howard 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!
>>
>> 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;
>>
>> 3) Move some of the higher bandwidth MICE members to the 1Gig ports on
>> the 10Gig switch. Would this increase the FWR cross-connect charges
>> for those members if they are going from copper to fiber?
>>
>> 4) Encourage MICE members on the 1Gig switch to upgrade to a 10Gig
>> connection;
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What does everybody think? Any other suggestions?
>>
>
> To the extent that my input is useful, I encourage option 2.
>
> I believe this is the more scalable longer-term solution and does not represent
> a significantly higher cost than any of the others will in relatively short order.
>
> Owen
>
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