ECMP has been used for well over a decade. The DPI industry has been doing this entire load balancing thing for at least 15 years.
10gbps with 8 cores is pretty crappy performance. People using DPDK and netmap are getting 10gbps with a single core. Netmap can bridge at line rate for 64 byte packets with a single core.
I am actually surprised this is 'news'. Perhaps google should reach out to some of the DPI companies to figure out how to really scale this. Currently they are 'overpaying' on commodity hardware by at least 8x over the current cutting edge in this type of field.
Just have a look at the NFV world for the cutting edge packet forwarding rates
10gbps with 8 cores is pretty crappy performance. People using DPDK and netmap are getting 10gbps with a single core. Netmap can bridge at line rate for 64 byte packets with a single core.
I am actually surprised this is 'news'. Perhaps google should reach out to some of the DPI companies to figure out how to really scale this. Currently they are 'overpaying' on commodity hardware by at least 8x over the current cutting edge in this type of field.
Just have a look at the NFV world for the cutting edge packet forwarding rates