Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs

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With more than a billion monthly active users, it’s easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook’s networks is delivering photos, status updates and “likes” to its end users, but that’s far from the case.

The social network moves about 1,000 times as much data between the servers inside its data centers as it does from its servers out to end users, company executives said Wednesday. They talked about the challenges that this creates for Facebook and the network technologies it’s developing to overcome them.

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