400G forwarding - how does it work?

Wed Aug 10 02:16:33 UTC 2022

Matthew Huff wrote:

> Also, for data center traffic, especially real-time market data and
> other UDP multicast traffic, micro-bursting is one of the biggest
> issues especially as you scale out your backbone.

Are you saying you rely on multicast even though loss of a packet
means loss of large amount of money?

Is it a reason why you use large buffer to eliminate possibilities
of packet dropping caused by buffer overflow but not by other
reasons?

					Masataka Ohta