<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Have you priced F1 solutions? <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Go look at the actual specifications for one of the metal boxes - you are not going to come close to maxing anything out with the workload you describe. FSB hasn't been a thing in over a decade. If you really wanted to go crazy you could do some build a custom solution in FPGA on the F1s.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's a moot point since none of this is going to be available in time but perf is a bogus reason and a lot of the times price is too.</div><div class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:12 PM Ken Gilmour <<a href="mailto:ken.gilmour@gmail.com" class="">ken.gilmour@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of about 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and CPU, on the server side it's IO and FSB</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 08:55, Akshay Kumar <<a href="mailto:akshay@mongodb.com" target="_blank" class="">akshay@mongodb.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a long way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances in AWS if you really need them with 100Gbps.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just just use the South Africa AWS region.<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ken Gilmour <<a href="mailto:ken.gilmour@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ken.gilmour@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you could help guide me in the right direction for research?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The challenges:</div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as opposed to serving smaller numbers of larger files).</li><li class="">Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full capacity of each server, all the time.</li><li class="">Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa</li><li class="">We can initially only have one POP</li></ol><div class="">This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old provider", the requirements are very different.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa that can serve most of the region?</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the rest of Africa.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle East will be deployed after Africa.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this is the right place to ask.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div></div>
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