Dropbox has been making changes to its infrastructure in recent times. This time starting with the creation of its own data centers from which it will serve its customers. But the next step is to stop using instances of Amazon Web Services -AWS content distribution system.
Dropbox 200ms Response Time
The company needed to reduce the response times of its servers. And it has achieved this by using a proprietary protocol stack on the border routers of its network. BGP sessions have modified gateway boundary Protocol or border gateway protocol to include proprietary information used internally. BGP is the protocol that enables communication between two administratively independent networks, known as AS or Autonomous Systems, by sharing their networks with other routes. They have switched to MPLS- based multiprotocol tag-based switching.
This stack of protocols manages the external sessions -eBGP. But also the internal ones -iBGP-, reducing the connection time of the security protocols and transport control TLS and TCP by up to 80%. In a link making from scratch, establishing the secure TCP / SSL connection usually requires a significant amount of time. Which can be 200 ms onwards in common systems, and also reduces the loading and unloading times from user equipment to 90% and 40% respectively. That is the data with which you have to stay on all the previous roll.
In general, it is somewhat technical information that we have from Dropbox on this change of network model. But this change is fairly well explained on the company blog. The first step in implementing this new system is the change in EE. Which is now taking place to make changes to its data centers in Sydney, Miami and Paris next quarter, and in Madrid and Milan in the last quarter of the year. In upcoming days it is also expected that Dropbox will implement more recent technology to its data centers.