{"id":3240,"date":"2012-08-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2333562"},"modified":"2012-08-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:00:00","slug":"architecting-scalable-infrastructures-cps-versus-dps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/architecting-scalable-infrastructures-cps-versus-dps\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecting Scalable Infrastructures: CPS versus DPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure metrics have always been focused on speeds and feeds. Throughput, packets per second, connections per second, etc\u2026 These metrics have been used to evaluate and compare network infrastructure for years, ultimately being used as a critical component in data center design.<br \/>\nThis makes sense. After all, it&#8217;s not rocket science to figure out that a firewall capable of handling 10,000 connections per second (CPS) will overwhelm a next hop (load balancer, A\/V scanner, etc\u2026 ) device only capable of 5,000 CPS. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2333562\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure metrics have always been focused on speeds and feeds. Throughput, packets per second, connections per second, etc\u2026 These metrics have been used to evaluate and compare network infrastructure for years, ultimately being used as a critic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}