by Pr0n » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:49 pm
mostly likely even if you are going the same route you wont be always on the same routers, there are big differences at the routers on the carrier side. right now state of the art routers are the cisco CRS3 systems which start at 90.000 $ and are able to handle a load of 322tbps the previouse series CRS1 could only handle 98tbps, so if you are lucky and get a route which is running only over CRS3 routers which can take a heavyer load and are unlikly overloaded and dont need to cut down the available connections per host you get a faster connections, since you are once connected the route doesent change you will have it the whole time untill the map changes since this is a reconect meaning you get a new route even if if it's the same way you probably dont run over the same routers and may endup on a router whcih is real small and only meant as a backup.
there are also differnt technics within the propretary systems of teh routers which can make connections faster, but there i mostly know what is used in stuff within a company net, but probably these machines have the same kind of technology or even more advanced stuff, espacialy since the backbone should be only fibre channel, there are a lot of changes latley and a lot of new technologys are comeing which make it possible to send more data faster on it, actualy direct fibre channel connections can be faster then what any router so far can handle.
but like i stated previously there are 1000 of reasons why the connections get slower, some of em i can think of right now are overload on first mile to backbone, the technik which is int he box getting the signal changed from electrical into light then routers, network overload, authorisation server and services, firewalls and then you got most of the stuff on the other side to if the datacenter isnt directly connected to the backbone which arent that much.
mostly likely even if you are going the same route you wont be always on the same routers, there are big differences at the routers on the carrier side. right now state of the art routers are the cisco CRS3 systems which start at 90.000 $ and are able to handle a load of 322tbps the previouse series CRS1 could only handle 98tbps, so if you are lucky and get a route which is running only over CRS3 routers which can take a heavyer load and are unlikly overloaded and dont need to cut down the available connections per host you get a faster connections, since you are once connected the route doesent change you will have it the whole time untill the map changes since this is a reconect meaning you get a new route even if if it's the same way you probably dont run over the same routers and may endup on a router whcih is real small and only meant as a backup.
there are also differnt technics within the propretary systems of teh routers which can make connections faster, but there i mostly know what is used in stuff within a company net, but probably these machines have the same kind of technology or even more advanced stuff, espacialy since the backbone should be only fibre channel, there are a lot of changes latley and a lot of new technologys are comeing which make it possible to send more data faster on it, actualy direct fibre channel connections can be faster then what any router so far can handle.
but like i stated previously there are 1000 of reasons why the connections get slower, some of em i can think of right now are overload on first mile to backbone, the technik which is int he box getting the signal changed from electrical into light then routers, network overload, authorisation server and services, firewalls and then you got most of the stuff on the other side to if the datacenter isnt directly connected to the backbone which arent that much.