On Jun 7, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
By the way, do we have professional/competent people to design the complex network we need? How much may cost a network analysis by a professional company? May it help?
I'm new here, so my information is spotty, so I hope I'm not overstepping any bounds by commenting, however I will add in my two cents any way :)
From what I've been able to gather by looking at the graphs available online, and briefly talking to a few people on IRC, It looks to me like the network it's self is not a problem and may not be for a long time to come. From what I can tell most of the wikimedia sites are not huge bandwidth hogs. Although I have zero visibility into how much NFS traffic there is or how much bandwidth DB downloads eat up.
The places that do seem of most concern seem to be keeping up with demand placed on the webservers and the databases. Which may be a matter of adding more and more boxes, ironing out some bottlenecks in the code/database or both.
Of course if there are network issues, I'm sure some reasonably competent network engineers around. (I might qualify as that, at least it's a big part of my day job...)
Just some thoughts.