Am looking at setting up a web cache which could support 1 Gbps of web traffic. The application is web-caching at ISPs in Africa.
Looking for some guidelines for CPU, Cache, RAM, Hard Disk for 1 Gbps Am leaning towards the new Xeon E5-2600v3 family which was launched in Sept 2014 A review of the series and performance can be found at Tom's Hardware. The number of SKUs is mind boggling - would appreciate any guidance here I don't want to overspecify this and spend a whole lot of $$ . The CPU cache size is usually critical for networking type applications. The E5-2600 with 10 cores @2.3 GHz and 2.5MBytes cache per core seems good RAM - DDR4 would 64 GB be enough? And SSD disk - say 500 GB? Ashok Rao O3b Networks ~
