100G - Whitebox

Mon Aug 21 04:33:24 UTC 2017

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> Mostly you can engineer around this, but it's not as simple as saying
> that small-buffer switches aren't suitable for an IXP.

Could you please elaborate on this?

How do you engineer around having basically no buffers at all, and 
especially if these very small buffers are shared between ports.

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