Hyperscalers have no way to track telemetry. Or should I say had? Tom Hollingsworth of Gestalt IT investigates Barefoot Networks’ answer to the problem
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The telemetry problem. It’s pervasive, and at scale, it becomes massive. Just milliseconds of latency at the hyperscale level can cause heavy revenue loss to the company. According to Tom Hollingsworth, as hard as these problems are to solve in the enterprise, hyperscale networking is an entirely different animal to tame. One of the biggest problems is that there is no way to track telemetry at the hyperscale level. However, this is just one issue of many.
So, what is the solution? Barefoot Networks may just have figured it out.