Uplink oversubscription
Difficulty 4 of 5
A rack switch has 48 server ports at 25 Gbit/s and 8 uplinks at 100 Gbit/s: 1,200 Gbit/s down, 800 Gbit/s up. In a shuffle, each of the 48 servers sends 256 KiB, and 7 of 8 bytes go to other racks. How many µs until the last byte leaves?
The question
Answer with one number in µs.
Goals and limits
- Completion time
- under 0.2 ms
- Monthly cost
- under 10,000 USD/mo