Thank you for dropping some savory knowledge!
SoggyBread@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is moat likely a core/main/back bone switch that feeds many smaller switches. Its not outside the norm, were seeing 400gb and 800gb switches that are easily able to push that much bandwidth out a single port. 1.2tb or 1.6tb switches are the next logical step. You’ll only find these switches in massive datacenters or for server clusters like for AI or high performance computing
thefloweracidic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
scarabic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It has to be. There’s nothing in anyone’s house that can use anything remotely approaching that much bandwidth.
pepesilvia@monyet.cc 7 months ago
My campus is working on upgrading our redunant 100gb ISP connections to 400gb next summer, so not necessarily just for HPC/AI/‘massive datacenter’.
Granted, our 100gb edge routers are reaching end of life, and a LOT of grant proposals will be able to put down “400gb uplink on our campus”, which helps lands money. The actual bandwidth utilization normally peaks at like 22gbps.