Archive for May, 2009

  • Moore’s Law and Bandwidth Consumption

    Moore’s Law and Bandwidth Consumption

    Most in IT are familiar with the concept of Moore’s Law, whereby processor capability tends to double about every two years.  To a certain extent, this happens with networking equipment, with their capacity increasing at a steady rate, although probably not the same rate at...

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  • Load Balancing Performance Metrics 101

    Load Balancing Performance Metrics 101

    In the previous post, I talked about the o3 article, and where I think they may have gotten it wrong (but it’s impossible to tell, as he didn’t publish any details on his testing methodologies, which is pretty lame). But that he may have used...

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  • A10 Releases AX5200 at 40 Gbps

    A10 Releases AX5200 at 40 Gbps

    A10 Networks recently released their new AX 5200 ADC, a 2U unit capable of pushing 40 Gbps of throughput and 3 million Layer 4 connections per second.  Check the link for more details, but dayom, 40 Gbps in 2U?  If it can really push that...

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