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Buffers Sometimes Beat Bandwidth For Networks

December 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Just like every kind of compute job cannot be handled by a single type of microprocessor, the diversity of networking tasks in the datacenters of the world require a variety of different switch and router ASICs to best manage those tasks. …

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