[AusNOG] Megaport - Link Negotiation

[jason andrade]

G'day,

From the content side of things I'd point out that 1Gbit still lets you move quite a lot of data:

~8T/day (at 80% utilization)
~60T/week
~250T/month
~3P/year

It would be pretty interesting to see figures (or a study) that enumerates:
	- Amount of data moved across peering links (bytes)
	- Peak transfer speeds across peering links (bits)

and to then plot both as a function across time.

At a personal level for the last 2-3 years in the R&E sector I cannot think of when I'd been working with < 10Gbit interfaces except for OOB/Management links but I still find quite a few instances where 1Gbit would usually work fine…

… except when the cost differential has narrowed so much that over the 3-5 year lifespan and the total cost of the infrastructure, what is the point.
… and those times when you simply must have a 10Gbit (or multiples thereof) to move large chunks of data around where time is in fact a critical function (science).

regards,

-jason
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On 24/04/2014, at 2:58 PM, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> Blah.  I wish they didn't.  I like the fact they are only starting at 10Gb.
> 
> I have encouraged them to do a 40Gb port offering, which I believe they are doing, but 1Gb... blah.