25 Gbit/s is absolutely insane for a private internet connection. Don’t get me wrong, it’s super cool, and Fiber7’s guarantee to always offer you the fastest possible speed for the same $ (or rather CHF here in Switzerland) makes this a really cheap offering, but I’m curious about the uses. Aside from “because I can”, is there any reason for this? Fiber7 has business options (at a higher price) for, well, businesses, so I’m at a loss what I as a person would do with 25x the bandwidth I already have. Most downloads aren’t bottlenecked by my ISP anyway, and streaming takes a fraction of this incredible bandwidth.
Just checked: I’m “stuck” with 1Gbit where I am, so sadly no fun experiments for me.
It’s not like my Gigabit connection is constantly clogged up or anything, but I’m fascinated by high transfer speeds and want to make https://distr1.org/ Linux images and packages available via 10 Gbit/s for fun, and if I can connect my workstation to the internet with a separate 10 Gbit/s of capacity, I’ll gladly take that :D
For one thing if you have decent upload speeds it makes low-ish traffic websites hosted from home a little less hostile, if you ignore intrusion attempts, which I guess is what the business thing is built for.
Along these lines, if you pass traffic between switching “groups” then the CPU will be used a lot more. My RB1100AHx4 has 2 (or 3) switching groups, so I use only the first one (first 6 ports) to avoid that.
25 Gbit/s is absolutely insane for a private internet connection. Don’t get me wrong, it’s super cool, and Fiber7’s guarantee to always offer you the fastest possible speed for the same $ (or rather CHF here in Switzerland) makes this a really cheap offering, but I’m curious about the uses. Aside from “because I can”, is there any reason for this? Fiber7 has business options (at a higher price) for, well, businesses, so I’m at a loss what I as a person would do with 25x the bandwidth I already have. Most downloads aren’t bottlenecked by my ISP anyway, and streaming takes a fraction of this incredible bandwidth.
Just checked: I’m “stuck” with 1Gbit where I am, so sadly no fun experiments for me.
It’s not like my Gigabit connection is constantly clogged up or anything, but I’m fascinated by high transfer speeds and want to make https://distr1.org/ Linux images and packages available via 10 Gbit/s for fun, and if I can connect my workstation to the internet with a separate 10 Gbit/s of capacity, I’ll gladly take that :D
So, yes, just because I can (hopefully) for fun.
For one thing if you have decent upload speeds it makes low-ish traffic websites hosted from home a little less hostile, if you ignore intrusion attempts, which I guess is what the business thing is built for.
Indeed, according to the official block diagram (https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/CCR2004-1G-12Splus2XS_200459.png) the CCR2004 does all switching on the CPU…
Compare to the CRS309 (https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/CRS309-1G-8Splus_190200.png) which has a real switching chip (but no SFP28)
For a 25G system the CPU switching is kinda no-go..
Along these lines, if you pass traffic between switching “groups” then the CPU will be used a lot more. My RB1100AHx4 has 2 (or 3) switching groups, so I use only the first one (first 6 ports) to avoid that.