Capacity Planning

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The Network

In another move to increase network capacity at Microsoft, system engineers installed two network adapters in each server. One is for the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) ring that carries Internet traffic, and the other is for the corporate network, which handles administration and content replication. With this arrangement, administrative traffic doesn’t take bandwidth away from Internet traffic.


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