don’t care about their allotted price per GB. I care about their network throughput. can’t be faster than 200gbps at the switch and having millions of videos streaming simultaneously on top of their already network throughput would likely become an incident for the UX teams.
The private side of the network is a secret, but a recent disclosure from Google[90] indicate that they use custom built high-radix switch-routers (with a capacity of 128 × 10 Gigabit Ethernet port) for the wide area network. Running no less than two routers per datacenter (for redundancy) we can conclude that the Google network scales in the terabit per second range (with two fully loaded routers the bi-sectional bandwidth amount to 1,280 Gbit/s).
don’t care about their allotted price per GB. I care about their network throughput. can’t be faster than 200gbps at the switch and having millions of videos streaming simultaneously on top of their already network throughput would likely become an incident for the UX teams.
As I said it’s 100 times more advanced than that.
They can switch IPs, datacenters, regions, whatever they want. They even have access to BGP routing.
They also use some custom switches according to Wikipedia: