Video: Big- or Small-Buffer Switches
After describing the basics of internal data center switch architectures, JR Rivers focused on the crux of the problem the vendors copiously exploit to create a confusopoly: is it better to use big- or small-buffer switches?
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We want CAKE (or at least fq-codel) in silicon.
& if you haven't seen Mark Handley's NDP demo video, it'll blow your mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0QhaxBRr0
Do have to mention though that the idea of clearing CLP bit on the last ATM cell in an AAL5 frame once you start dropping the cells due to congestion is a bit like trimming the packet down to its header ;)