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Re:Servers for an Accelerated Future by nodesocket on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:16AM (#22404672)
Are they running 2x 25Gbps NIC’s per server over standard cat 6? I thought 10Gbps over cat 6 was generally accepted as the fastest it can reliably push?
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Re:Servers for an Accelerated Future by Hardops on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:58AM (#22405149)
This is Rami from Cloudflare ... we actually use DAC Cables w/ SFP+ for all of our 25G nics.
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Re:Servers for an Accelerated Future by j-walker on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:53PM (#22407102)
The orange cables in this pic (https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/20...) are probably Cat5/5e/6 and are for management.
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Re:Servers for an Accelerated Future by etcet on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:58AM (#22405148)
It looks like they're using DAC: https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/20...
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