Okay, so here’s what im working with, I am deep in optimizing a network, and the traffic is getting beyond my means now. On one side, I need insane throughput to handle the data flood, but on the flip side, I can’t let latency go through the roof, or everything starts to feel… Lets say sluggish.
I’m dealing with some serious multi-gigabit routers, but now that we’ve got so many services running, it’s like a constant balancing act. So here’s where I’m hitting a wall.
When you guys are setting up enterprise-grade routers, how do you handle the balance between throughput and latency when traffic gets crazy? Are you more about cranking up the CPU for that speed boost, or do you go the route of fine-tuning QoS, traffic shaping, and maybe adding a bit of WAN link redundancy?
Really curious to hear how you guys approach squeezing out the best performance without things falling apart