Have you priced F1 solutions? -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net>
> On Jul 16, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > Go look at the actual specifications for one of the metal boxes - you are not > going to come close to maxing anything out with the workload you describe. > FSB hasn't been a thing in over a decade. If you really wanted to go crazy > you could do some build a custom solution in FPGA on the F1s. > > It's a moot point since none of this is going to be available in time but > perf is a bogus reason and a lot of the times price is too. > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:12 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com > <mailto:ken.gilm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very > different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of about > 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and CPU, on > the server side it's IO and FSB > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 08:55, Akshay Kumar <aks...@mongodb.com > <mailto:aks...@mongodb.com>> wrote: > The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a long > way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances in AWS > if you really need them with 100Gbps. > > Just just use the South Africa AWS region. > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com > <mailto:ken.gilm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP in > Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you could > help guide me in the right direction for research? > > The challenges: > Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as opposed to > serving smaller numbers of larger files). > Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full capacity of > each server, all the time. > Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa > We can initially only have one POP > This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old > provider", the requirements are very different. > > Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers > (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa that > can serve most of the region? > > "Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal > restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the > rest of Africa. > > Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like > something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle East > will be deployed after Africa. > > I hope this is the right place to ask. > > Thanks! > > Ken
