To get started, we have to understand what medium or high network bandwidth is. Refer to the previous section, where you can find a table presenting the time needed to send data over a network with a given bandwidth.
To find the best solution, we will go for the following assumptions:
- Medium network bandwidth can be declared as 100 Mbps–1 Gbps.
- High network bandwidth is everything over 1 Gbps.
By analyzing the table in the previous section, you can see that for medium bandwidth, the data transfer time can still be something that you're concerned with. For bigger workloads (such as hundreds of TBs or PBs), medium bandwidth will be rather problematic. You may wonder what options we have here. In general, there are two ways to handle the situation:
- If the estimated time is not reasonable, you should go to the previous section and check the solutions for handling low or no network bandwidth.
- If you can...