[c-nsp] Is the 6704 really as terrible as everyone says?

[Nick Hilliard]

On 03/12/2010 13:35, Drew Weaver wrote:
> You don't find that 16x10 = 160Gb but the card is only connected at 40Gbps bothers you?

The card also has an internal tree fabric, so you may be able to design 
your networking requirements around that.  If you're not doing much traffic 
overall but need burst capacity, then the 6716 may be a good choice.  On 
the other hand, maybe using ToR 10G switches might be even a better choice 
(as in no contention and 10% of cost), if you can live with small buffers.

Nick