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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). 5G 5th generation mobile networks are the most recent generation of cellular networks. DNS The Domain Name Service (DNS ) is the address book of the Internet.

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Unlocking the Power of Embedded CDNs: A Comprehensive Guide to Deployment Scenarios and Optimal Use Cases

Kentik

A little about BGP: BGP is used to signal to a cache which IP ranges it should serve A setup where all caches have identical announcements will work for most deployments since the next tie-breaker is the geolocation information for the end user’s IP address. Prefixes are sent from the ISP to the caches. 0/24 is announced to B 1.