As a non-technical person on this list, I have no idea what you just said Lesile (and Tim, earlier in this thread) but I greatly enjoyed reading it! Keep up the good work :-) -Liam / Wittylama
On Tuesday, 31 December 2013, Leslie Carr wrote: > Oh man --- > > The trolling here is amazing!!! > > First off, you can't just plug a fiber cable into an ethernet socket. > You need at least SFP+'s for 10G fiber connections, plus the cost of > fiber itself -- it's way more expensive than a 100mbit connection. > > That said, we do use SFP+ based 10G for our varnish layer -- the > amount of traffic pushed by those boxes compared to the amount it > would cost to buy a bunch of additional machines makes the extra cost > of the interfaces (and don't forget the switch ports! 10G switches > cost more than 100mbit switches) make perfect financial sense. > > Leslie > > PS - someone technical may point out that DAC (which is copper! gasp!) > is cheaper than two SFP+'s and a fiber cable. That's true! However > we have had major issues with DAC compatibility on the switch side, > and some issues on the hardware side. SFP+'s rarely (albeit > occasionally) have that issue. Plus we can keep a spare inventory > that is usable in multiple places, making our sparing easier and life > easier on the DC techs when we need to scramble for an unexpected 10G > need. > > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:10 PM, James Salsman > <jsals...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> Maximum 100 Mbps ethernet connection.... > > > > We should be using fiber, which also costs less power and is orders of > > magnitude faster. > > > > If the words "enterprise-class" actually mean something more than > > "much larger markup than purchasing components" then go with something > > like http://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do?releaseID=3576 > > > > For example, maybe the http://www.mitac.com/business/gfx_servers.html > > people have benchmarks representative of our DB/cache usage patterns. > > It's not like we have anything special (or x86-specific, Jasper!) > > other than very high bandwidth. > > > > At least put out an RFP, please. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Leslie Carr > Wikimedia Foundation > AS 14907, 43821 > http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> -- wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
