Anyone have worked with the switching vendor Quanta for their 10ge switching as TOR? [1] Their spec looked interesting and they are quiet cheap. [1] http://www.quantaqct.com/en/01_product/02_detail.php?mid=30&sid=114&id=116&qs=63 -bn 0216331C On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 12/02/2013 14:23, Piotr wrote:
shared 9 MB packet buffer pool that is allocated dynamically to ports that are congested
9MB is a standard size of port buffers..
That's pretty standard for a cut-thru ToR switch of this style. Cut-thru switches generally need a lot less packet buffer space than store-n-forward switches. Also, ToR boxes tend not to have complex qos requirements.
Having said that, you need to be careful deploying small-buffer boxes. If you're not careful, you will end up with bad packet loss.
Nick