The universal scaling law is a model designed to help engineers understand transaction based systems, particularly databases and applications. What could a transaction based system have to do with network design? After all, networks aren’t really transaction based, are they? Or maybe they are… Let’s ignore the data flowing through the network for a moment…
Edge provider networks, supporting DSL, voice, and other services to consumers and small businesses, tend to be more heavily bound by vendor specific equipment and hardware centric standards. These networks are built around the more closed telephone standards, rather than the more open internetworking standards, and hence they tend to be more expensive to operate…
While it is true that huge scale is a different mindset, and not just “more of the same only bigger,” there are also a lot of lessons to learn by looking at how truly large scale networks are built. In this vein, Google released a paper explaining the evolution of their network. While the hardware…
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