Hoe verwerk je 850Gbps?
en volgend jaar 1,7 Tbps?
Brocade has announced that one of the world’s biggest Internet Exchange Points, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), selected Brocade to deliver a new MPLS/VPLS network topology to increase network stability and resilience for its portfolio of 350 clients. AMS-IX installed Brocade NetIron MLX series switches and routers to meet the growing demand for bandwidth that is resulting from exponentially rising traffic volume.
AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet hubs worldwide, where global service provider and large enterprise networks come together. In total, they exchange more than 850 Gigabits per second of Internet traffic. The AMS-IX platform provides high quality, non-blocking professional peering services for all types of IP traffic whether regular data, video or VoIP. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering points worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX), as well as solutions for broadcasting with the multicast peering service.
Due to the growth of Internet traffic and increased volume of users, AMS-IX must double the size of its network each year in order to keep pace with demand. Its former dual-star topology (one active, one passive) was starting to reach capacity limits, and even the largest Ethernet switches – 128 x 10 GbE ports – could not meet demand. AMS-IX took the decision to move to a distributed core architecture to expand capacity and improve stability.
“By changing our infrastructure, we expect to stay ahead of the exponential traffic growth requirements we have been facing over the past couple of years,” said Henk Steenman, Chief Technical Officer at AMS-IX. “We have experienced peak traffic in excess of 850 Gbps per second. Brocade was the only networking provider able to deliver us an infrastructure that could accommodate a combination of three key factors: performance, extremely high scalability and reliability. When one of these requirements does not function well, it has a negative impact on our business and on the end user. It is imperative that we offer our clients non-blocking connectivity at an affordable price-point and with a high degree of availability.”
AMS-IX implemented Brocade NetIron MLX routers to facilitate growth in this new architecture. The Brocade NetIron MLX design gives AMS-IX the opportunity to aggregate as many as 32-ports of 10 GbE to provide an aggregated link capacity of 320Gbps. Brocade has applied advanced load-sharing algorithms in order to fully utilize the increased capacity, establishing the industry’s highest and most advanced link aggregation solution. These patent-pending load-sharing algorithms help ensure optimal utilization of all links in a link aggregate and reduce correlation between equal cost multipath and link aggregation.
