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My Internet’s Too Fast

Whether we’re integrating systems or building new SOA architected applications (with heavy cross-component communication that may be flowing between physical machines or across virtual machine clusters – which again drop down to separate physical machines), the network backbone makes a significant difference. A good enterprise data center is running at least a 1gbit backbone, with portions or major interconnects at 10gbit.  Further, those good network engineers are properly segmenting the network, which makes sure the heavy traffic patterns have maximum capability (and aren’t going to be slowed down by users streaming internet radio). Between applications in the core of the data center, we rarely run into network capacity or network speed as our major performance problem.  (Credit those network engineers.)  This doesn’t mean the issue should be ignored, if some applications are integrated in a high speed query or transactional pattern, there can definitely be a major performan